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Abused for wearing a Blue Union t-shirt
My day started by picking up my son and heading over to Goodison Park for two purposes: one was to use my right of free speech as a British citizen, and right as an Evertonian who has spent on average £1000 a season since my son was born 17 years ago and more money since I was 16 five years previously, along with all the money my father spent since 1972, as do many of my fellow Evertonians.
Secondly to support the team I love and worship like a religion, nothing but the love of my wife and my two children makes me happier than watching my beloved blues at the church of Goodison.
With regards to the March, we gathered together in the rain and marched together peacefully wearing scarves and Blue Union t-shirts, we were exerting our right to free speech as do all the supporters of the club.
During the game, we saw carefully edited shots of Bill Kenwright which had two reactions: boos and support, that doesn’t matter what camp you’re in, what it does is show the fans are split and as the wins dry up the tide will turn even more.
We drew the game, with a small squad who did play for the shirt, but with a bigger squad the score may have been 2 points better off. But with watching mid to late 70s, Mike Walker’s mediocre side etc, I left the ground it feeling like a defeat against a team we love to hate due to a certain League Cup Final in the 76-77 season.
But that wasn’t the saddest part of my day, a day which being an Evertonian will not be forgotten for the wrong reason. We always go to St Francis Xavier club near the Aldi for an after-match drink, discuss the ups and downs of being Evertonian. The moment was when my 17-year-old son, who was wearing a Blue Union t-shirt, was leaving the club with me, he was given abuse by so-called Evertonians, “knobhead” was the word they used…
How I kept my dignity, I don’t know, how I never caused mayhem I don’t know. Let them hold their heads in shame, just like the freeloading Board. But you know what, I want my 17-year-old to see silverware, not be happy with a penalty shoot-out win at Wembley.
So I will continue to fight for the right to free speech, the right to support my club, and the right with the Blue Union to want the best, because NIL SATIS NISI OPTINUM IS NOT WHAT OUR BOARD IS PORTRAYING.
Bill, I know you’re a blue and so am I, so you’re not any different; stop telling us you love the club. Do the right thing: if you love the club — let it go.
Richard Gillham
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Stuff like this doesn’t suprise me.
People want change yet aren’t prepared to use action to get it.
let go but who are you going to let in be careful what you ask for
“During the game, we saw carefully edited shots of Bill Kenwright”
- How did they (the BBC that is) “Edit” live shots and why would the BBC want to? It was THEIR pictures!!!
But I don’t candone this abuse at all.
The tide is turning and the heat at the door of Kenwright is rising by the week. A bad run of results in October and the pressure will be intense.
He is aware of how unstable his footing is — let’s give him the push and get him out of the Directors Box and into the hospitality suits; he is not fit to run Everton Football Club.
NIL SATIS NISI OPTIMUM – it’s a motto, an aspiration…lets not allow this board drag us any further into the gutter.
Let the club go to whom???
a.The gentleman was expressing the same free speech you are “fighting” about.
b.Who will he let it go to ?
C. If you are man enough to wear the T-Shirt you have to be Man enough to take the flak from supporters who don’t like what your about.
And lastly what where you doing taking a 17yr old into the pub
I wonder what abuse somebody wearing a pro Kenwright T-shirt would have got?
Kieno – I think a few people, including the BU statement, have made reference to this. I think the point being made, irrelevant of where the feed is from, is that the club control the screen. The cut things when they feel like it..but on Saturday chose not to.
In any case, the club clearly do have some control over some cameras in the ground, as shown by the pre-match fan shots and the ‘best fan’ competition. Whether they are club contracted cameras that film the action for the screens, I dont think anyone can say with any certainty at this point. It’s certainly not out of the question given the EvertonTV consideration.
deeblue – “If you are man enough to wear the T-Shirt you have to be Man enough to take the flak from supporters who don’t like what your about.”
I find that comment disgusting. Is that what ‘pro Kenwright’ Evertonians are about, condoning intimidation of teenagers? How sad.
The club cut the feed for advertisement during breaks in play and for security reasons when there are action replays taking place of potentially contreversial incidents. It’s pretty obvious when one of those incidents is about to come up on screen (i.e. directly following the incident). It is not obvious when an image of the directors box is about to be shown. It was not obvious what the crowd reaction was going to be.
The abuse of your son was inappropriate, shame on those who perpetrated it. I agree you have a right to protest. My issue with the BlueUnion is that the whole argument rests on the assumption that there are lots of willing buyers and that BK is standing in their way. If this is the case, I’d back the BU 100%. But I’ve seen no evidence to suggest it is the case – is there any evidence that I don’t know about?
Would the BU’s efforts be better spent helping with the search for a new buyer? I honestly think BK would leave if there was a viable buyer?
Although it pains me to say this. The redsh@te would not turn against each other lime us so called Evertonians. No matter what views people may have there is something that we should all agree on and that is the club that we all love and adore has stagnated to the point where the likes of Stoke, Norwich and Fulham are spending more money than us. There is something that is seriously wrong with the running of the club if a top 5 team cannot get a serious investor to buy the club or is it that Blue Bill and the board just want too much money……
@ Brian
I agree, but a good run of results will do the opposite.
xmas day, dont think they would have got abuse! sympathy more like for their mental state!!
a.The gentleman was expressing the same free speech you are “fighting” about. No he was not, to say knobhead is going way beyond wearing a t shirt, it is violence, if he wanted to shout knobhead at people why didn’t he go down to the march were the were hundreds of us ? as for the club putting Kenwrights face on the screen well how low will they stoop, so now they want Evertonians scrapping in and outside the ground, well lets c what happens in January because i have a feeling another name will go lets c if u still have confidence in this board then……. NSNO
“the team I love and worship like a religion”. And there’s the problem. There is so much more to life than a flipping football team. If people had a sense of perspective and realised this is just a sport, perhaps the emotions from both sides wouldn’t be so intense.
Everton is a business, first and foremost. We are customers. We don’t have the right to demand the overthrow of the company’s managers, we can simply decide whether to carry on giving them our money or not. Football in general is going down the pan, the bubble of huge wages and transfer fees will burst, and Everton stands to be actually one of the very few clubs that is run remotely sensibly. Sure, we’d all love to be more successful, but it could be worse. We could be Leeds, we could be Blackburn. But remember, we are supporters of a football club, watchers of a sport and consumers of a product. Let’s keep that sense of perspective.
Pebbles, I couldn’t disagree more with you, and I think it’s a great shame that you seem so certain that your very cold and cynical outlook is the correct one.
“Everton is a business, first and foremost. We are customers. We don’t have the right to demand the overthrow of the company’s managers, we can simply decide whether to carry on giving them our money or not”
Whilst all football clubs are businesses, and always have been in terms of their operation, they are a business like no other.
We are not ‘customers’, we are loyal and dedicated supporters, and the club relies on that loyalty and dedication to continue to exist.
Sadly, for far to long now, that loyalty and dedication has been grossly taken advantage of, to the point of us being shown a contemptuous disrespect, by the likes of that despicable nomark Ian Ross.
The club should thank themselves very luck that this isn’t simply a business, and that we aren’t simply customers.
If it were, the Ian’s “sandwich shop” would have closed down long ago.
Staveros, as I’ve asked before, what are your solutions then? Who has the Blue Union got lined up to replace or takeover from Bill? Who are these buyers Bill has stopped from taking over the Club? What solutions to the current problems the club is faced with have the Blue Union offered? I think if you can answer these questions you may get more support
we went to St Francis and heard other people having a go at Blue Union Supporters being called Kopites – personally me and my brother got some dirty looks but we had his little boy with us so nobody said anything. I found most of the people supporting Kenwright quite aggressive about the whole thing
Another ‘so-called’ Evertonian website with the same initials as our beloved chairman edit nearly all anti-Kenwright correspondence! 18 out of 20 supporters have today backed Kenwright’s management of the club – EIGHTEEN folks, do you ‘Call y’self an Evertonian BK?’
The aggression came from the pro-Kenwright side of things, that much is absolutely true. I was there on the march and there were far more than a few hundred. Hilarious misrepresentation and just makes me even more determined that the next time there is a march, I’ll be there.
Our Chairman was pleading with the banks a few weeks ago – in his own words – not to kill us off this season. I think that reveals a lot about how good his management of the club has been. There’s a reason why the bank won’t lend him any more money.
Tommy – those questions have been answered repeatedly on many different forums. The Blue Union has called for an independent team of business professionals to be appointed with the sole task of identifying suitable potential buyers. These old chestnuts of “if bill goes, who have you lined up” or “who would come in if bill went” really need to be put to bed. It is not up to BU to come up with a buyer and it would hardly be appropriate.
On how many buyers have been turned away – I don’t have the answer to that however I will ask you why BK will not announce how much he is valuing the club at? Surely this is the biggest determining factor to any potential sale yet he refuses to answer time after time.
i Dont doubt for a minute BK has done his best to take us forward,but, other than sponsorship deals nothing has worked and there must come a stage where you can only have so much bad luck, the current board i assume are there or at least were there cos they want to be, and, are there because in their respective business interests they have been succesful, so,why are they collectively so good at messing thing up repeatedly, Kings Dock is the big one for me, if that is it was ever a real possibility??
@ Rachael – so it’s ok for members of BU to question other’s sanity and loyalty to EFC (exercising ‘free speech’) but when someone does it the other way around it’s ‘violence’? Get a grip.
I don’t condone EITHER attitude – but don’t defend one and then attack the other. Those who commented ‘knobhead’ are indeed sad, but equally the comment about questioning peoples mental state because the may suport the board (poster ‘tony’ in response to poster ‘xmas day’) is just the same.
BD how is going on a peaceful march questioning others sanity and loyalty to EFC? shouting knob head in someones face is something else,if the so called fan was unhappy with the lads shirt could he not have a conversation with the lad about it, i have been with blues who dont agree with me, they dont screen in my face with obscenity’s, but if u think that’s fine then so b it, i dont question anybody’s loyalty 2 Everton, 4 or against, like i said time will tell come jan, if u think its fine 2 sell players and not replace them, again that’s fine with me its your opinion, i just have a different 1, see how i said all that without calling anyone a knob head
NSNO
Seamus – Fair comments, but would it be fair to say that if there had been one serious buyer and the board had blocked their attempt to buy the club (at whatever they offered) do you not think we would have heard about it in the press? I would suggest that we would have done by now, I’m certain of it. However poor the board may or may not be at selling the club, it is public knowledge that the club is for sale and if anyone out there was serious about buying it, I don’t think it would take much to let it be known, do you? It’s all well and good shouting “We want change” but that’s obviously easier said than done. Are the Blue Union putting everything on the idea of appointing an independent team of business people to sell the club? I just hope it goes to the right people then, there’ll be no going back if it falls into the wrong hands….
Racheal – learn to read. I think you’ll find I didn’t condone their attitude and clearly wrote that. I also never said I agreed with what the club are doing. Not sure where you got that from? In fact your answer made very little , if any, sense at all to be honest.You certainly didn;t address any of the points rasied, I never mentioned screaming in peoples faces and neither did the original post. All it said was someone passed a comment of ‘knobhead’ at the poor lad.By the way I also never said going on the march questioned peoples ‘sanity and loyalty to EFC’ – that was brought up by a poster called ‘tony’ (I even explained that in my original post!! fgs).
I went to have a look at the protest. Iwas standing near to the Park end. It went by and I thought yes this quite good. I may join in. That was until some fella in a BU T-Shirt shouted towards me and a group of about 20 fellas standing watching. “Dont you want Kenwright out? Why dont you join us you? Knobheads” Now I know everyone was pumped up, so no problem with his enthusiasm, but I thought this whole movement was against Stagnation not wanting Kenwright out. Which is it? But other fans standing near me were saying things like. “I’m glad I didn’t join in.” The other thing is Mike Knowsley is having a go at a another Everton website he doesnt name, but I presume is Blue Kipper. I go on all the websites and they all have there good points. I dont see the point of having a go, as if there were
I’m with deeblue, if you’re going to support a cause or idea, you’re going to have to accept that people will share the opposite view. If wasn’t appropriate behaviour to call your son a knobhead, but he could’ve said and done many worse things.
I think (from both sides of the argument) that people are starting to make them selves look a bit silly.
The facts are, the BU want Kenwright to sell the club to someone with more money. I think every Evertonian would hugely agree with this, however clearly not every Evertonian feels comfortable booing the chairman that got us Moyes and took the club from Johnsons hands.
And that’s the rub really, it was very impressive of the BU to get 1000 people to peacefully march to the ground and mark their grievances. However the major problem about the march is that whatever is said about interim boards there still has to be someone with a lot of money that wants to buy the club. At core whatever anyone says, or shouts, nobody can march to demand an on the spot billionaire.
The frustrating thing is the figures that it now takes to turn a football club successful, if this was 20 years ago then season ticket holders together could probably formed a fan owned club, as it stands now, the numbers for this would be impossible.
Which is why a lot of fans think the BU and the march is a bit daft and embarrassing, another group of fans think that the BU is actually behaving quite badly to an Evertonian chairman who they feel has done is best (I would suggest a lot of people feel like this after the applause for Kenwright on sat) and then obviously you have members of the union who think they are correct.
Personally, I think it’s amazing when any group of people can mobilise themselves to attempt to force change, however I’m not sure this applies here, because what the BU is asking is for a man to sell something that nobody wants to buy.
So there is divisions amongst the fans. I think the above article is only going to make these divisions worse, it’s a little embarrassing. Firstly “carefully edited shots”, in what way were they carefully edited? They put on shots of Bill, as they have done for the last 10 years, normally when we are winning because he looks happy. It’s this nonsense that make the BU look ridiculous, the BU have to except that more than half the crowd disagree with there views as was shown in this case.
Then you’ve got the almost glee in the tone – “as the wins dry up the tide will turn even more.”… It feels to me that the author would rather we lost more so as to gain more supporters in the BU camp? Don’t know about you but I’d rather as in 04/05 the team comes back from the summer stronger, Moyes has always done best under adversity, so you never know. Obviously though this isn’t ideal and not want we want for the club, but it’s the tone in articles such as this that makes it difficult for me to support the BU.
And then there is the the talk of abuse, obviously nobody should ever be abused in the street (but I would suggest that ‘knobhead’ is hardly going to keep the lad awake at night). Anyway it’s this kind of article, with it’s supercilious tone and conspiracy theories, which will get other fans backs up and further alienate the blue union from the other support.
Underneath we’ve now got comments such as “Is that what ‘pro Kenwright’ Evertonians are about, condoning intimidation of teenagers?” Deliberately splitting the support apart into different groups. Is this what a union is about? People writing this kind of thing surly just aren’t thinking – we’re all Evertonians together. This will not help.
I think that a lot of the stuff on this site since saturday have been quite poorly thought out. If it had just concentrated on the positive aspects of assembling that many people with the same common goal, not on the “editing” of the big screen or on someone being called a knobhead, I would suggest that the union would have a lot more fans. I think it would be a terrible thing if all the union did was to create splits in our loyal support.
What is apparent is that we will not find the answer as fans and we want to be united , abusing fellow supporters is never good and i believe we all what ever side your on have the right to air your views.
Only the board can answer the question , yes we don’t want any fly by night , we don’t want any carson yeung , thaksin shinawatra etc etc.
Cant we target Within our British isles as Sunderland did , ex United owner JP Mcmanus has been mentioned.
What about links with the NFL or NBL owners in New York
I don’t want Bill to be booed at all,We must be seen as unified supporters of the team.
All we want is a successful team which wins a trophy. I want my son to feel the way i did in the eighties.
If Kenwright goes because of fan pressure i think Moysie will follow…..and where will that leave us ?
Where exactly is Moyes going to go Mick? If he had any backbone he’d have quit long ago..but instead he accepted the £65k a week silence money and just sells the fans down the river nowadays instead.
Telling us how the Chairman is great..whilst we are lining up with midfielders up front because we haven’t got a squad.
Wouldn’t it be great if the Blue Union could track down the mystery buyers Bill K cited – the supposed executive from ICI and the person in the flat in Manchester. Apparently they spend £150,000 in the process until they were “outed”. Wouldn’t it be excellent to hear their side of the story as I am sure they would be well pissed off if legitimate.
Totally agree with the comments of “Deepblue” – could not have put it better myself.
Firstly I believe the actions of that one individual (at the game or on the street) are deplorable – there is no excuse for it no matter what their beliefs.
This website appears to only promote articles that show the club in a negative light. Their is no positivity whatsoever in the fans articles, and this is not a true representation of the many everton followers. As the SOS1878 website is acting as the speaker for the ‘blue union’ it appears obvious that their negatives vibes will shine through. However, it is clear that there are many everton fans that have commented on some of the one-sided arguements written to highlight the errornous beliefs of such a small minority.
Everton are in a better position now than when ‘agent johnson’ left, have a higher league position, a better playing squad, a better training ground, a greater turnover, and a majority owner with the interests of the club the number 1 priority. Would I like us to be competing for better players….yes…..would I like Goodison Park to be in better condition….yes….would I like us to be winning trophies….yes…….Would I like us to be owned by somebody with bucket loads of cash…..yes…would I like us to be owned by somebody we know nothing about…..No…..Our club is in safe hands at the moment…even if those hands are made of bronze and not silver or gold
boycey boycey boycey, I am sorry my friend but you are falling in to the old trap again of speaking for “the silent majority”.
“not a true representation of the many Everton followers” you say, well what is is then? Are the people who write articles and comments on here not Evertonians, or do you just view them as lesser Evertonians because they don’t agree with your point? They are certainly not all affiliated to this site.
Then I move onto some of the direct points that you make, which are naive at best.
1. “Agent Johnson”..what exactly does this term mean? It is childish and completely irrelevant, unless you believe that Peter Johnson, as a once Liverpool supporter, was intent on ruining his own investment?
2. A better playing squad. Yes…just like every other team in the division. It has absolutely nothing to do with Bill Kenwright, and I challenge you to show otherwise.
3. A better training ground? We don’t have a training ground boycey..we rent one. We used to have one when Peter Johnson was here, we owned it. We had a megastore too, which he built…but Bill Kenwright has sold off pretty much everything.
4. A greater turnover. Yes…due to increased TV and sponsorship monies..which are again jack shit to do with Bill Kenwright and completely down to market forces. If you want to make a valid comparison then you will have to do some research and come up with a percentage improvement versus our rivals..which I cant be bothered to do.
5. “A majority owner with the interests of the club” – An owner who was willing to relocate the club to Kirkby against the wishes of half the fanbase, an owner who told bare-faced lies about Goodison Park and safety certificates in order to hoodwink people into voting for it, and owner who has openly admitted doesn’t have a sustainable plan to take the club forward and had to beg the banks “not to kill us this season”.
Yeah, absolutely terrific he is…if you are hard of thinking.
Boycey, I appreciate you taking the time to post but really what you have said is typical of what a Bill Kewnright supporter would say. It is free of facts, full of bluff and bluster, and essentially very, very naive.
You could save a lot of time by simply posting “Bill Kenwright is an Evertonian..therefore I will trust anything that he says or does”…because that is the bottom line.
Despite stacks of factual evidence, and even comments from the man himself, that categorically spell out that his running of this club is nothing short of incompetent…there are still people like you who wont have it.
So just leave logic out of it, because to still support the current ownership is bereft of any.
What I was saying is that the articles on the site appear negative, while the many comments regarding the articles on the whole are more positive on the club and the issues ‘blue union’ have.
Regarding your points:
1 – I was merely stating that the club was in a dire state when kenwright stepped in to take the club out of the hands of a liverpool fan and into a lifelong blue.
2 the squads of those competing against us in the premiership of which there have been at least 12 finishing below us each year (including the many relegated) suggests that our playing squad is better than placing pre-kenwright. How can ‘all’ other teams in the division be getting better squads if over 30 have been relegated since kenwright took over? While I don’ believe enwright had much of a role in attracting the players to everton, he will still have played a prominent role in their recruitment.
3 For the future development of our academy players a larger training venue was needed. It is common place in many sports for profesional clubs to hold leases on stadiums and training venues. Bellfield, I believe, would not have attracted the player that Finch farm does, be it international or academy.
4 I’m like yourself unaware of what role kenwright had in the sky deal (i expect minute). However, he will have been involved with the larger sponsorship deals, overseeing them alongside the chief executive. As he owns the club and its revenue has increased he will (much to your obvious disgust!) have played some role in this.
5 59% supported the move, although i was not one, I’m sure you’ll agree this is more than HALF (you seem to like mentioning facts!) The owner that has as you put it ‘no sustainable plan to take the club forward’ has put the club up for sale -what more can he do – leave it to the supporters to run…haha
How is it that when it suits you will quote kenwright during the often emotional statements he has made, and when it doesn’t you will not?
What factual evidence do you have that the club is falling apart?
@ Staveros, Mate you seriously need to drop the negative vibes. It`s people like you and your Blue Union mates that are causing the doom and gloom. Why now? The situation at EFC has been the same for years!! You break valid points by boycey down and attempt to debunk them as nonsense and fail miserably. I`ll put things into more perspective for you….
1-Agent Johnson. Are you yourself childish enough to pull people up on the wording of a point made in context? Many fans know the nickname given here and it relates to very sorry times for Blues. This man was no secret agent(shock horror) but did our clubs finances no favours. Kenwright & his bunch have provided more insight into the finances at our club than ANY other EFC board. End Of that one.
2-Are you telling us that our squad is shite? That we havent averaged a 6th place finish over the last 6 years? that this has all happened under Kenwrights stewardship is testament to the fact we are better than 70% of the league in this time, christ mate.
3-We dont have a training ground, we rent one? Complete contradiction in your own words. Would you rather attract players using the best, most advanced training facility in English football (finch farm) or bellefield? We did own finch farm, we sold it to ….wait for it…. generate income. A clever move when u understand we have it for 100years and first refusal on the next 100 years. Additionally the rent is more than affordable in terms of what we sold it for. Jesus
4-The revenue has increaced under Kenwright, regardless of his role it proves that our club has moved with the times, not stagnated and he deserves some of the credit as chairman.
5-Your opinion of what the fans think seems to extend to any fan who agrees with your point of view and thats it. I was against Kirkby. Im against you mate. I dont hate Kenwright no, but I completely disagree with these Blue Union loyalists who really dont have a clue about finance and running a business. Our club is not exactly in the best position but neither the worst. We mix it up in the league and are slowly getting better. Listening to these BU comments is like listening to Kopites moan. For christ sake wake up and support the club & let the club sort itself out. It`s not in the hands of the rich, but in the hands of the careful. Friggin hell lad
Boycey…
1. Repetition of the same pointless ‘point’. What the hell does the team you support matter at all to your acumen as a businessman? None. Unless of course, as I asked, you think that he was intent on losing his own investment? Honestly, people need to grow up. You say the club was in a ‘dire state’ when Kenwright took over, so back that up with facts. Tell me how Bill Kewnright has improved EFC?
2. No it doesn’t, it suggests that David Moyes is a better manager than Mike Walker and Joe Royle..which is maybe why he has been here for nearly 10 years and they got sacked…not rocket science. Bill Kenwright has provided zero investment, so how can he be in any way responsible for an improvement in the squad??
3.We owned the Finch Farm land until we sold it off to the developers for £2m. We got what was it..£8m for Bellefield..and that has instantly disappeared to the bank. As per usual…looking at the short term and leasing what SHOULD be a secure club asset. Another example of Bill Kenwright’s ineptitude and need to sell off every asset the club has to keep our heads above water.
4. Like I said, you need to draw a direct comparison. Of course our sponsorship deals have increased..not because of Bill Kenwright though..because of market forces, because of the increased exposure of the EPL. If you want to promote Bill Kewnright and his board,show me a % increase of our sponsorship deals versus some direct rivals like Spurs, City, Villa etc. My guess is that our position will have considerably worsened, as other clubs make huge commercial strides and we make none.
5. No, 59% of people who responded supported the move, the MAJORITY(including those who abstained) didn’t. If you can’t get your head around that, it is the same logic that Bill Kenwright supporters apply in saying that “The Blue Union” views are in the minority. If you don’t positively vote FOR something, then you have to be taken as against it. You can’t have it all ways!!
The factual evidence that the club is falling apart is all around you, and you have to be blind not to see it. We haven’t paid money for a player for 2 years, the last 4 players that we have sold have not been replaced and all of the money has gone to the bank. The money for the sale of Bellefield has all gone to the bank.
The club has sold of virtually ALL of it’s assets. Bill Kewnright himself admits that he doesn’t have a plan to get us out of this mess.
What more evidence do you need, are you having a laugh??
Fathead, I was typing when you replied…see above, I think all your points have been countered too.
You are desperately trying to give credit where none is due.
You keep going on about ‘business’, the ‘business’ is falling to bits, completely.
The only positives that you can come up with are sporting ones, and again…that is simply the difference between having Peter Johnson’s managers and Kenwright having Moyes.
I’m not a fan of Moyes myself, but one thing I always say is that, overall, it’s impossible to argue with his results. The fact he has managed to get results despite no investment is the ONLY reason the simple element of our fanbase aren’t chasing Bill Kewnright out of the club.
Sadly, that is how short-sighted and fickle a lot of Evertonians are. As long as we are not in a relegation battle, everything is fine, head in sand, don’t want to know.
Staveros, it`s clear we have different views and I dont think that it`s a bad thing to do so. As blues, we both want the club – now and in the future to prosper. I honestly believe that we need change too, I just wont go down the road of blaming a man who has the best interests of the football club at heart. BK takes no money out of EFC for personal gain, he is a loyal fan and a chairman who is simply not rich enough to move us forward. There are positive sporting points made but to say that it`s nothing to do with BK is laughable. It`s widely publisised that the relationship between chairman and manager is strong. You say we have moyes to thank for results? Without BK allowing Moyes the freedom of running the club in his way I can guarantee Moyes would of walked by now. Look to Moyes for an honest appraisal of BK and he, though frustrated about finances himself, always supports the chairman. Unfortunatley we are just not an attractive buy and no matter who attempts to sell the club, finding the right buyer is obviously the major issue. Whats it done for villa? Birmingham?