Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast with George and Andy Costigan as we look back on a desperately disappointing dismissal from the FA Cup, our 9th FA Cup home loss in the last 20 seasons.
The Moshiri induced existential crisis continues, in fact, deepens. Perhaps the harshest, most blunt assessment of his time at the club.
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Went the game the podcast discussion aboutt the game and where are we heading is definitely worth the listen, totally agree with the sentiments. Being an Evertonian season ticket holder is so hard especially an ex pat 400 miles away is taking its toll now the podcast reinforces my feelings and sentiments. Regards
Chris
Andy, please stop saying are (our) kid and bro
Andy, that was far and away your best ever rant to kick off the podcast. Pretty much agree with everything you said, especially with regard to LFC. For 55 years following Everton, we’ve only been better in five seasons. That is a disgrace!
Grant in his above comment has beaten me to the punch, regarding Andy’s rant. I Completely agree that it’s become almost a chore to support Everton at this point. It’s just a never ending saga of bad results, bad news, bad signings & chronic mis-managment. In all my years supporting Everton this is surely the Bottom of the barrel (although I will probably have to revise that statement if things keep on going the way they are). I never ever thought I’d see the day where we try to take the positives out of a cup exit at home in January. Yet that is exactly where we are. Barring an absolute Miracle, we are looking at least 30 years without a trophy, possible relegation and a takeover by a group that seem to have the opposite of a Midas touch with every team they acquire.
Thanks for another very interesting and informative podcast. You have no reason to apologise for the downbeat content of the discussion as we all have to face the facts here, and there is precious little to say of a positive nature. It won’t always be like this. Keep up the good work.
welcome to the real world guys – you do know that professional sport has been ‘weaponised’ don’t you? – if not you better get on board with the narrative that is destroying our culture with a view to creating a moronic new world order – and by buying into this you are supporting the creation of an elite system that is in no way democratic and will ensure you remain slaves to the system!
listening to this reminds me how shallow the people really are and how ignorant they are of what is happening to the world around us. until you become aware of this then you are lost to the narrative
your naivety is alarming
Only tickets available at Fulham last night were at £105! On this basis £59 sounds like a bargain!
here’s an interesting follow up to my previous comments – not that it will necessarily happen – rather that is is set in motion and has direct relevance to EFC’s plight and debt management
https://thegreattaking.com/read-online-or-download
Hey Paul, Thanks for so much your informative podcasts. As someone with a financial background who’s worked in the global reinsurance industry, your article on 777 Re turned on the light bulb for me. I was puzzled for a long while, but now I completely get how they are sourcing their distressed asset purchases (with the premiums paid by poor life insurance policyholders who will need the funds back when claims must be settled). I am now shocked how the media in one of the globe’s biggest insurance centers (London) has not blown the lid on the whole 777 charade. At least AM Best has caught on.
Though what I want to really write about is your utterly fantastic discourse between the 48th and 55th minute of this podcast on the essence of SPECIFICALLY HOW the utterly corrupt EPL was established as a cartel of 6 clubs which continues unabated. Wow ! You didn’t just hammer the nail into board, you drove the nail through the wall so perfectly you knocked down the house. You should write up that discourse in your usual beautiful prose as the ‘Unlevel Playing Field Fans Manifesto’ – which must distributed to all UK and global media outlets (print and televised), to the UK government, and across social media far and wide. I simply dont think the common fan understands how the Rich Six Cartel known as the Premier League came to be, and they need to know. By establishing transfer and spending limits based on a percentage of revenue/turnover, when a cartel of 4-6 clubs had ALREADY established revenue streams 2x and 3x as large as any other club in the UK, then tacking on another rule which distributes TV money based on a club’s place in the standing, the EPL effectively put the Rich Six cartel in motion. The Guardian published this information back in 2016. The revenue / turnover ranged from $306 to $581 million for the Rich Six, while it was from $117 to $233 million for the Little 14. The Gap from the 5th club to 7th was as large as the gap from 7th to 20th !
By tying defacto wage limits (non-infrastructure spending) to existing commercial revenue streams at the time, the EPL quickly gave the Rich Six access to the best players, virtually assuring them of high Table finishes and the most TV money, trips to the Champions / Europa League and even more money, all effectively creating a league of 14 rotating patsies (or “small clubs” as puppeteer Richard Masters calls them) who would never be able to compete on a level playing field with the Rich Six for any period of time. Given this absurd financial advantage which was based on nothing do with how well they managed their affairs once they entered the league, they Six have used it to grow and grow their brands (and the money that goes with it), thus making the corrupt EPL’s Playing Field more and more unlevel each year, and bringing riches and power to the corrupt EPL Board.
Yes, a Leicester or Brighton will rise up for a short time (the EPL loves this, adds to their pathetic David vs Goliath story they try to build), but those us us with a basic knowledge of finances understands they cannot compete with the commercial revenue streams of the Rich Six for very long, as Leicester’s descent to the Championship proved. And as you say the new nefarious spending rules Masters and his ilk are putting in will not improve things, they will just make the gap wider, which is what the corrupt EPL really wants.
Until an independent regulator is brought in who de-links spending limits to revenue, and makes them flat across the 20 clubs (think American Sport salary caps), and calls for the equal division of TV money (from the League and from European competitions) across all 20 clubs (thing the American NFL) this league will become a bigger and bigger farce, just like the 2-team Scottish League. That is the message that has to be blared in the ears of UK fans. They all believe it is because the 6 teams have rich owners, no it is because they are allowed to spend the most money to get the best players. All it would take to begin to change that is to de-link player wages from a club’s commercial income and distribute TV money equally !!!!!! Its all in your podcast Manifesto herein. 48th to 55th minute. Spread the word. I hate to see poor fans like George and Andy so upset every week. There must be so many more across the Everton fan base. They need to know who the real enemy is ruining the game (No, its not VAR!) In fact, the EPL wants you complaining about VAR. It turns your attention from the UNLEVEL PLAYING FIELD which sustains the Rich Six cartel.
In fact, these ridiculous Sustainability rules dont even help to ensure Club’s Financial Stability anyway, as Everton proved. Its ludicrous. Why do the wage limit calculations remove infrastructure spending ? That is the very thing which is driving Everton to Administration. A business does not go bankrupt because they spent too much on operating expenses, that happens because they spent too much money period, does not matter what it is spent on. If the EPL actually cared about Everton’s finances they would have had rules governing how Moshiri went about building that stadium. But of course they would never have done that, because they hoped that stadium would build Everton’s brand, bring the EPL more prestige, and bring its Board more power and money. Now that Moshiri failed, they want to punish the Everton fans for the club spending ‘too much’ on players, Ha ha it is such a HYPOCRITICAL FARCE, an intelligent man does not even know where to begin in explaining it all.