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Shining stars on our night to remember

Feb 9 2006

By John Thompson, Echo Sports Editor

 

IT'S no fun being a football fan.

Well not on a cold February night, when you've travelled more than 200 miles, seen your team well beaten and then had to get all the way home again by train or car, turning in for work today when you'd rather be turning over in your bed and sleeping off the hangover of defeat.

For once Everton and Liverpool fans shared the same feelings last night as they departed the capital after the defeats to Chelsea and Charlton.

The trouble, effort and expense which supporters go to to get behind their teams is all too often under-played and under-valued.

Not by their own clubs, but particularly by the TV schedulers who seem to take the gallery at their chosen games for granted.

One particularly cruel example was Liverpool's recent FA Cup tie at Portsmouth - moved to a 6pm kick off on a Sunday night without a care for the travelling fans, a decision roundly and rightly condemned by Anfield Chief Executive Rick Parry.

At least the Reds fans had a victory to warm them that night. Not so for them or Evertonians last night.

So it was a pleasure on Monday night in Liverpool to be able to highlight and reward some of those supporters who go to astonishing lengths to back their sides, come hell or high water.

 
 

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