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“Once a sandpit car, always a sandpit car"
Great post on our chat forum from Andrew Mulligan regarding last year's Junior Blues trip:
"Last Years Junior blues trip was great. I took my two kids with me. Robert was seven and Daniel was five. 3 weeks after the trip I was out in the back garden getting it ready for summer. My wife was cleaning out the sandpit. The boys like to drive small cars in the sandpit, Daniel wanted to take the cars that were in the sandpit over the winter into the house and replace them with new cars. You can imagine these cars are covered in dirt so my wife said no and told him the agreement that we made with him last year, “once a sandpit car, always a sandpit car”. Like all five year olds he wasn’t getting the message and kept on asking and my wife, like all women didn’t give in and kept giving the same reply “once a sandpit car, always a sandpit car". Robert, like all older brothers started to get annoyed at Daniel’s moaning and butted in with “yeah Daniel, it's like once a blue, always a blue.” I was very proud and knew that I was on my way to converting my first born to becoming a lifelong blue.
He won a book on the Junior Blues trip which he looked at most nights in bed. One night we were going through all the matches that Dixie Dean scored his sixty goals a season in, when I came across an article about Nyarko, he is the fella that asked to be substituted after an everton fan ran onto the pitch to swap jerseys with him as he felt he could play better. This was at the time that Walter Smith was manager. Nyarko was supposed to be the next patrick viera, instead he turned out to be the next carlton palmer. I told him the story and he was really interested, he must have asked me about a dozen questions, like what positions did he play in, what was his jersey number. Was his jersey the same colour as the fan. Was the fan arrested, did he go to jail. I tried to find in on youtube but had no joy so if anyone has a video of this, will you stick it up.
Robert regularly watches a DVD of david moyes 10 favourite matches and I even have him watching a video I got about 15 years ago called Joe Royle six of the best.
Suffice to say he is now a fully fledged blue. It would have been a lot harder, if it wasn’t for the junior blues trip so I recommend any parent with young kids to try your best and go on this trip."
- Great story Andrew, thanks for the feedback. It's brilliant to hear as we all know how hard it can be at times growing up in Ireland as an Everton fan, when you're faced with so many band wagon supporters, and it inspires us as a committee to bring Everton fans in Ireland together. To all - here's the link to this year's Junior Blues trip http://www.irish-toffees.com/events.html (Ronan)
"Last Years Junior blues trip was great. I took my two kids with me. Robert was seven and Daniel was five. 3 weeks after the trip I was out in the back garden getting it ready for summer. My wife was cleaning out the sandpit. The boys like to drive small cars in the sandpit, Daniel wanted to take the cars that were in the sandpit over the winter into the house and replace them with new cars. You can imagine these cars are covered in dirt so my wife said no and told him the agreement that we made with him last year, “once a sandpit car, always a sandpit car”. Like all five year olds he wasn’t getting the message and kept on asking and my wife, like all women didn’t give in and kept giving the same reply “once a sandpit car, always a sandpit car". Robert, like all older brothers started to get annoyed at Daniel’s moaning and butted in with “yeah Daniel, it's like once a blue, always a blue.” I was very proud and knew that I was on my way to converting my first born to becoming a lifelong blue.
He won a book on the Junior Blues trip which he looked at most nights in bed. One night we were going through all the matches that Dixie Dean scored his sixty goals a season in, when I came across an article about Nyarko, he is the fella that asked to be substituted after an everton fan ran onto the pitch to swap jerseys with him as he felt he could play better. This was at the time that Walter Smith was manager. Nyarko was supposed to be the next patrick viera, instead he turned out to be the next carlton palmer. I told him the story and he was really interested, he must have asked me about a dozen questions, like what positions did he play in, what was his jersey number. Was his jersey the same colour as the fan. Was the fan arrested, did he go to jail. I tried to find in on youtube but had no joy so if anyone has a video of this, will you stick it up.
Robert regularly watches a DVD of david moyes 10 favourite matches and I even have him watching a video I got about 15 years ago called Joe Royle six of the best.
Suffice to say he is now a fully fledged blue. It would have been a lot harder, if it wasn’t for the junior blues trip so I recommend any parent with young kids to try your best and go on this trip."
- Great story Andrew, thanks for the feedback. It's brilliant to hear as we all know how hard it can be at times growing up in Ireland as an Everton fan, when you're faced with so many band wagon supporters, and it inspires us as a committee to bring Everton fans in Ireland together. To all - here's the link to this year's Junior Blues trip http://www.irish-toffees.com/events.html (Ronan)
