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Paul Quinn

The Analysis Series: Premier League Club Governance: A Comprehensive Analysis of Board Composition and Director Profiles – Part I

This is a two or three part series looking at the individual boards of each Premier League Club, profiling each of their Directors – warning -Long read Part I features Manchester City, […]

The Analysis Series: Premier League 2023/24: A Financial Overview (most recently available figures)

With Everton’s finances in a much more robust state following the Friedkin acquisition, and with a year of unprecedented (for Everton) revenue growth ahead, I thought it would be useful to put […]

Talking the Blues Podcast – 2nd edition of close season, thoughts on DCL & how to create 15,000 new Evertonians

Welcome to this week’s  Talking the Blues Podcast with George and Andy Costigan. With me (Paul) not being able to find the right words to our opening, the actor amongst us (George) […]

Talking the Blues – close season ramblings with Andy, George and Paul

Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast. With not a lot of concrete news to discuss, the three of us have a good old natter, trying to put the world of […]

Plus ça change?

“All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.” ― Noam Chomsky

Talking the Blues Podcast – transfers, the fixture list, the FIFA world club championship, Crystal Palace and Textor…

Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast with George and Andy Costigan. We look at a range of topics this week and extend into several non-Everton related football topics also. As […]

Talking the Blues Podcast….. what it means to be a Blue

Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast. The title says it all…… what it means to be a Blue. Andy and George Costigan in imperious form, a stunning listen As always, […]

Talking the Blues podcast – summertime – is Everton’s success dependent upon what we spend?

Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast with Andy and George Costigan. We spend a little bit over an hour pondering on the factors behind Everton’s future success, are the number […]

Transcript of Talking the Blues Podcast, Newcastle United (a), Moyes, who stays, who goes?

Transcript Paul:  Good afternoon or good evening depending upon where in the world you are, what time of the day you’re listening to this final episode of the season, Talking the Blues. […]

Talking the Blues Podcast, Newcastle United (a), Moyes, who stays, who goes?

Welcome to this week’s edition of Talking the Blues Podcast with George and Andy Costigan. We look back on the final game of the season, reflect on the season as a whole, […]

Talking the Blues Podcast – the Goodison (men’s) finale and much more

Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast in which we look back on the final fixture for the men’s team at Goodison. What a momentous day, and what credit our fans […]

Transcript of Talking the Blues Podcast – the Goodison (men’s) finale and much more

Paul:  Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, depending upon where in the world you are and what time of the day you’re listening to this post-Goodison episode of Talking the Blues. […]

Saying goodbye to Goodison is about the one constant, the fans

I was asked by the Guardian newspaper to provide answers to a series of questions relating to this weekend’s game against Southampton, our final first team game after 133 years at Goodison […]

The return of Talking the Blues – a joyous victory on the banks of the Thames

Welcome to this, the returning episode of Talking the Blues Podcast with George and Andy Costigan. What can we say! Having declared the podcast as over only five weeks ago, we return […]

Transcript to the final Talking the Blues Podcast

Paul:  Good morning, good afternoon or good evening, depending upon where in the world you are, what time and day you’re listening to this episode, which might be a significant episode of […]

Talking the Blues Podcast……………………………..

Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast. A momentous Podcast – I hope you listen to it all From Andy, George and myself – thank you for every single listen, every […]

Part II – Analysis of Everton Football Club Company audited accounts 2023/24 – Everton Stadium Development Company Limited

To complete the analysis of Everton Football Club Company Limited Report and Accounts for 2023/24, Everton Stadium Development Limited warrants its own analysis, particularly in the context of the treatment of interest […]

Survival, by the skin of our teeth – summary and analysis of Everton’s 2024 Annual Accounts

The publication of the 2023/24 Audited accounts for Everton Football Club Company present the final full year impact (to 30 June 2024) of Farhad Moshiri’s disastrous reign as the majority shareholder. For […]

Transcript of the Talking the Blues Podcast, published 30 March – pre Derby and a catch up

Paul: Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, depending on where in the world you are, and what time of the day you’re listening to this episode of Talking the Blues. Here […]

Talking the Blues Podcast – pre-Derby catch up

Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast with George and Andy Costigan. With Everton not playing for the second successive weekend we have a quick look at the lead up to […]