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Football Protests: Are We All Moaners At Heart?

February 29, 2012
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Football Protests: Are We All Moaners At Heart?

I’m interested in Premier League protests, and especially the battle between the board and protest groups at Everton. Tomorrow I’ll be blogging on the Kenwright Out “issue”, trying to separate fact from the factions, but today I thought I’d post some pictures and quotes I’ve found on t’internet. It doesn’t look like fans of other sides are too happy with their owners or managers either.  Are we all moaners at heart? (Look out for the corking “Abramovich Out!” banner below…) Manchester United Glazers Sir Alex Ferguson Glazers Arsenal Arsene Wenger “Save Arsenal FC. Kroenke out. Arsenal Football Club is in crisis.” Chelsea Abramovich & Ancelotti Phil Scolari Newcastle United Cockney...

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NOT IN FRONT OF THE KIDS

October 9, 2011
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Some time has now passed since the Blue Union opened Pandora’s box and the completely expected truth about Everton’s finances was revealed. We are skint, not a revelation for anyone with even a passing interest in the Toffees. Nevertheless, it was with clenched teeth and furled fists that I read about our club in the national papers – it’s always annoying to be told about your club. To be told that Ross Barkley’s good, about a year after we all new. To be told that we aren’t the force we used to be, when we’ve been simmering with discontent for years about that very fact. And now, in what has to be...

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Everton to be owned by its fans & become The People’s Club?

September 28, 2011
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Everton to be owned by its fans & become The People’s Club?

The response to our post ‘How the Barca ownership model might work for Everton’ was surprising and encouraging. People put forward lots of constructive ideas. For instance the funds could be raised over a two or three year time frame – to ease the burden on  pockets – and the monies gradually put into the club – say at £20m or £30m per season. Others suggest that if Kenwright was selling to the fans, he might accept a lower price. Another idea was that the co-operative or Socio, or whatever you want to call it, is not used to buy and re-finance the club but to invest in the construction and ownership of...

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Motown to Merseyside: Ilitch ‘perfect’ for Everton – if only!

September 12, 2011
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During the interview between three members of the Blue Union and Bill Kenwright, the one that caused all the fuss, there were any number of vacuous questions and red herrings flying around. One question however, an odd stab in the dark, is worth a moments reflection – sort of. A guy called Barry put it to Kenwright that since Liverpool were now owned by Fenway Sports Group – owners amongst other things of the Boston Red Sox baseball team – had enquiries been made to see if the Steinbrenner family, who own the New York Yankees, were interested in buying Everton. George Steinbrenner, family patriarch and driving force behind...

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Osman turns in striking performance & Vellios demands a start

September 12, 2011
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Osman turns in striking performance & Vellios demands a start

EVERTON 2 (Osman 19, Baines 69 pen) – ASTON VILLA 2 (Petrov 63, Agbonlahor 83). IF you read some of the guff which fills the back pages of the newspapers and ponder the long-winded, repetitive drivel, which is churned out by certain web-sites masquerading as investigative journalism you would have come to Goodison on Saturday fully expecting to witness a mutinous crowd, the ritual decapitation of Bill Kenwright and an outclassed team devoid of motivation, drive and talent. What actually came to pass will have come as a huge disappointment to the reporters who packed the press box. The protest march did materialize, but the team, brimming with youngsters...

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MOYES, KENWRIGHT, AND THE BLAME GAME

February 2, 2011
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MOYES, KENWRIGHT, AND THE BLAME GAME

There’s an argument wafting around the United States that is centred on a lawsuit against McDonald’s and their Happy Meals. One outraged mother is suing the fast food chain because Happy Meals made her children overweight. Shrugging off her parental responsibilities, the mother claims that McDonald’s and specifically their Happy Meals, is a dietary siren luring her young children to shipwreck; making them obese. Many are shocked by the fact that this mother , rather than exerting influence over her kids, is blaming McDonald’s totally. The case, I’m sure you’ll agree is open and shut. Leap over the Atlantic to our Premier League and managers, like McDonald’s, are totally...

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TRYING TO SEPARATE THE TRUTH FROM THE LIES

February 1, 2011
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TRYING TO SEPARATE THE TRUTH FROM THE LIES

There’s a stiff Arctic wind blowing over Goodison Park. Everton are the Premier League’s Inuits, a subsistence football club on the razor’s edge of survival. Nothing has changed for years. Now though, there are murmurs of discontent. People talking about “protests” at games, people at the end of their tether, emails from “insiders” going around. I can’t help feeling that because we weren’t part of yesterday’s transfer jamboree fans are jealous because our closest neighbours had a transfer hurricane come through Anfield. Because of  that some think it is time to call for Kenwright’s head. Jealousy is an irrational thing. In pre-season some of us with bloated dreams were...

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60 Evertonians: 5. James Corbett

October 11, 2010
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60 Evertonians: 5. James Corbett

James is European Correspondent of World Football Insider and was previously Contributing Editor of the Observer Sport Monthly. Back in 1994 , when James was just 15, he founded the successful Everton football fanzine, Gwladys Sings The Blues. James is also the author of Everton: The School of Science - a new edition of which will be out next month. James was kind enough to answer our questions. Have a read, it is instantly apparent that he is an Evertonian to the marrow.

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