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Feb 5, 2009 21:24:20 GMT
Post by freddie on Feb 5, 2009 21:24:20 GMT
what was the reason 4 the socks last night ANYONE cheers
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Feb 5, 2009 21:26:49 GMT
Post by sgtpotter89 on Feb 5, 2009 21:26:49 GMT
isnt it something to do with Kirkby, where everton's new ground is going to be, has a nickname to do with socks?
sorry thats no help at all
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Feb 5, 2009 21:28:18 GMT
Post by northstokie on Feb 5, 2009 21:28:18 GMT
Socks? Why socks? Was it a goodwill gesture from the richer half of Merseyside to their hard-up neighbours? Or an easy way of getting rid of unwanted Christmas presents?
None of the above - in reality it was a dig at Everton’s proposed move to a new stadium in Kirkby on the outskirts of Liverpool.
Residents of Kirkby, a mainly working class area whose famous sons include boxer John Conteh, former Liverpool captain Phil Thompson and playwright Alan Bleasdale, are sometimes derided as “sock-robbers.” This is a rather cruel reference to the way that burglars from the area allegedly put socks over their hands to avoid leaving behind finger-prints.
What started as a joke on a Liverpool supporters’ internet forum mushroomed into Wednesday night’s carefully-organised stunt, which was embellished with a raucous chant of “sock-robbers.”
It is not the first such dig. In last season’s league derby at Goodison, Liverpool fans released onto the pitch Tesco carrier bags filled with balloons - a jibe at Everton’s reliance on the supermarket chain to part fund the new stadium project. They also used Tesco’s slogan on a banner to taunt their blue rivals: “Every Little Helps.”
And older fans will remember the time in the 1960s when a Kopite ran onto the Anfield pitch to present Everton goalkeeper Gordon West with a handbag.
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Feb 5, 2009 21:28:37 GMT
Post by AlanHansen on Feb 5, 2009 21:28:37 GMT
Something to do with Kirkby, there was a press article apparently that said not even socks are safe on the washing lines around there. Hence Liverpool fans throwing socks at Everton. Quite funny.
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Feb 5, 2009 21:28:55 GMT
Post by KevinWhimper on Feb 5, 2009 21:28:55 GMT
Something about people in Kirkby (where Evertons new ground is going) nicking socks or something like that.
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Feb 5, 2009 21:28:57 GMT
Post by towraytek on Feb 5, 2009 21:28:57 GMT
Its something to do with the proposed Everton new ground in Kirkby where it is said they nick your socks off your clothes line to wear on their hands when they burgle your house so that they dont leave fingerprints.
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Feb 5, 2009 21:29:08 GMT
Post by powchirper on Feb 5, 2009 21:29:08 GMT
Scousers call people from Kirkby Sock robbers, and thats where most evertonians are from, hence the socks thrown on the pitch.
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Feb 5, 2009 21:31:00 GMT
Post by freddie on Feb 5, 2009 21:31:00 GMT
cheers feel better now no 1 knew at work
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Feb 5, 2009 21:31:22 GMT
Post by diaofan on Feb 5, 2009 21:31:22 GMT
I did like Liverpool's chant of "The city's all ours".
Seemed quite loud at one point as well
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Feb 5, 2009 21:34:14 GMT
Post by crimesy on Feb 5, 2009 21:34:14 GMT
Pitty they were quiter than my local church when we played them though diafan.
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Feb 5, 2009 21:41:57 GMT
Post by diaofan on Feb 5, 2009 21:41:57 GMT
Pitty they were quiter than my local church when we played them though diafan. True ;D I was on about the one particular chant at the beginning that the TV mics picked up
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Feb 5, 2009 22:14:13 GMT
Post by bunnyscfc on Feb 5, 2009 22:14:13 GMT
I thought it was EVerton fans who were singing 'dat'?
What was the Gerrard song they were singing?
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socks
Feb 5, 2009 22:15:59 GMT
Post by diaofan on Feb 5, 2009 22:15:59 GMT
I thought it was EVerton fans who were singing 'dat'? What was the Gerrard song they were singing? Nah, was a Liverpool song, seeing as Everton are "leaving the city" to move to their new stadium (at least i think so anyway).
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Feb 5, 2009 22:17:32 GMT
Post by Block 25 on Feb 5, 2009 22:17:32 GMT
yh i wanted know what the gerrard song was they sang it when he went off anyone know / ???
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Feb 5, 2009 22:19:13 GMT
Post by Corporal Clegg on Feb 5, 2009 22:19:13 GMT
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Feb 5, 2009 22:19:42 GMT
Post by Ddraigcoch on Feb 5, 2009 22:19:42 GMT
Some of those.pubs round Goodison will become redder or close down when the sockrobbers decamp to Kuuurrrrrbeeee:)
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Feb 5, 2009 22:42:47 GMT
Post by Ron Jeremy on Feb 5, 2009 22:42:47 GMT
pisser, i just thought they couldnt find anything else to throw apart form the clothing :S
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