Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues podcast with Andy and George Costigan. We look back on the Anfield derby, we question the integrity of the Premier League and the damage the lack of governance is doing to the game.The Merseyside derby should be a jewel in the Premier League crown yet is becoming a non-event, driven in part by the inequities of the modern game.
We examine a terrible week for Everton football club with more appalling allegations and news concerning our would-be purchasers, 777 and ask who is going to stand up for our football club? Who is going to rescue us from our existing owner and his chosen (but not yet approved) successors?
Finally, during the recording of the podcast the sad passing of Sir Bobby Charlton was announced. We pay our respects to a truly great man and send heartfelt condolences to his family and friends.
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“Allegations” are not fact. The persecution of Everton by unelected, anonymous, faceless Premier League bureaucrats for alleged financial breaches is politically motivated, rigged, and corrupt. They have sat on over 100 allegations of far worse financial malpractice against Arab-owned Manchester City for over 5 years. So why is it Everton get the fast lane, rush-to-misjudgement treatment? Because our owner is Iranian, whose previous business partner is a sanctioned Russian oligarch (Usmanov). City are untouched because they are owned by unelected Arab dictators and billionaires in the United Arab Emirates, a dutiful poodle of the US Evil Empire. Football is tainted by US/Arab money, and those pulling the strings of the mannequins at the Premier League and Freemasons All (FA) reside in Washington DC and Arab capitals.
I liked the intro song.
I’m not being bitter, but still coming down. The officials are star struck and influenced.
I keep saying it. VAR is not the issue. It is the standard of the officials and my previous comment.
That fixture and referee decisions have cursed us over the years.
We deserved a point in the reality of the difference between the two teams and that we played more than a half plus about what felt like 16 minutes of added on time (exaggeration but it felt like it). And even when time was up, it was like the ref was allowing a last attack to go ahead.
We were unlucky and suffered injustice but we are rarely getting battered these days. Close margins. If Dominic heads that one either side, we are 1 – 0 up. Different game.
I agree, we are (ironically) the Titanic steering towards the Iceberg.
But then the red cousins were on the steps of the Crown Court, hours from administration. Wolves in the fourth tier with the gates of Molineux padlocked. Middlesboro having to re-establish themselves.
I find Leeds hypocritical if they try to sue us given what they done in the 2000s.
I wonder what will happen if the Triple 7 thing doesn’t come off. Will MSP come back into play? They have already contributed money as I understand?
I am not sure how any company can not be audited or have to provide evidence for 3 years. Okay, I work in Cyber Security, but standard practice is to have an internal audit followed by an external audit before being given your certification.
Anyway. West Ham at the weekend. A trip to Stratford. Up to the homeland for Burnley midweek and back again for Brighton.
Great show. However I would like make two general points and it may seemed as if these are aimed at you and evertonians. They are not, although that not to say yourselves and evertonians are immune from criticism in the main. When the news of Moshiri buying Everton first came out I remember the joy and celebration. Here was the sugar daddy we’d wanted, now we could compete with the big boys again. I don’t remember people saying “what if it goes wrong?””what if he cocks it up”. In fact I distinctly remember telling friends about a piece I’d read from an Arsenal fan who was so overjoyed that Moshiri and Usmanov were turning their interests elsewhere. No one was bothered. I also remember after his first season saying something isn’t quite right here, we are naking poor decisions on and off the field. Manager after manager was sacked on a whim and no one was bothered, “we’ll buy our way to success”. Only after the farce of Allardyce and Beneitz did people wake up and realise where the problems lied. Then Russia and the rest is well documented, in general we’ve now hounded him out of club without thinking about who may come in or the position we may find ourselves in as a club. The money tap it turned off and we can do now is hope.
I’ve asked this before and someone must have ideas. Who could come in if 777 are rejected? There are millions of evertonians collectively and there must be a few with funds or connections to funds that could consider a bid. As Delia once harked where are you? Let’s be having you!
Thanks guys as usual, although I’m not sure I feel any better having listened to another dose of reality bites.
Firstly, just a point of Admin, as on your ‘Tagged’ list, there is a spelling mistake on Sir Bobby Charlton and I was worried on where your link would take me.
I agree and it saddens me too, that we go into difficult games and don’t even ‘have a go’ anymore, all I hear is that we defended well, is that all we’re about, wave the white flag even before a ball is kicked. Worse squads than ours have gone to Anfield and got a win, what happened to ‘attack is the best form of defence’?
With regard to 777, the narrative from the club seems to be ‘give them a chance to prove themselves rather than listen to all the negativity’. The alarm bells are ringing loudly, whilst they are providing very little on how they propose to save our club.
Do I feel better having said all that? Not really, but its good to talk, so they say.
Thanks guys as usual, although I’m not sure I feel any better having listened to another dose of reality bites.
Firstly, just a point of Admin, as on your ‘Tagged’ list, there is a spelling mistake on Sir Bobby Charlton and I was worried on where your link would take me.
I agree and it saddens me too, that we go into difficult games and don’t even ‘have a go’ anymore, all I hear is that we defended well, is that all we’re about, waving the white flag even before a ball is kicked. Worse squads than ours have gone to Anfield and got a win, what happened to ‘attack is the best form of defence’?
With regard to 777 the narrative from the club seems to be ‘give them a chance to prove themselves rather than listen to all the negativity’. The alarm bells are ringing loudly whilst they are providing very little on how they propose to save our club.
Do I feel better having said all that? Not really, but it’s good to talk, so they say.
Paul
Not asking for names, do you know if there are other investors interested in Efc?
ah no, first bobbee charlton and now billy kenwright, dead in the same week – my life is over now, i cannot cope anymore with dis iam crying uncontrollable like princess di …….ah no