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Paul Quinn

Talking the Blues Podcast, Brentford (a) Where do we go from here?

Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues. A short review of the match (not much to be said) followed by a focus on immediate objectives (Liverpool, Wednesday) short term – our next […]

Part IV, Everton’s ownership and leadership, finance and funding

So far in this series, I’ve examined the impact of governance, the cost of poor recruitment and the role of the director of football. Now I’d like to turn the attention to […]

Talking the Blues podcast, Manchester City (a), fan led review & the state of the club

Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues. A slow start as we discuss this afternoon’s game before we liven up with the prospect of the fan led review followed by a splendid […]

Part III, Everton’s ownership and leadership; the director of football

So far in the series, I’ve looked at governance in Part I and recruitment in Part II. In today’s article I want to examine the director of football role at Everton. Interestingly, […]

Part II, Everton’s ownership and leadership, the cost of poor recruitment

In this the second part of the Everton ownership and leadership series, I wanted to focus on our finances but in a slightly different way than normal. I want to try and […]

Talking the Blues podcast, changes at Finch Farm, Infantino, DCL & environmental blues?

Wide range of topics in this week’s International break, Talking the Blues Podcast. With George and Andy Costigan.   As ever all  our podcasts are available on on Spotify and iTunes and many other podcast platforms. […]

Part 1, Everton’s ownership and leadership: the importance of good governance

I want to set out a clear analysis of Everton’s performance in recent years on and off the pitch and the role the club’s owner and leadership have played in it. In […]

Talking the Blues podcast, Tottenham Hotspur (H) and why are managers treated differently to players?

Hello and welcome to this episode of Talking the Blues with Andy and George. We look back over the Tottenham game with an encouraging improvement in effort before asking the question why […]

Talking the Blues, Wolves (a) post-match reaction and much more

Thanks for joining us 24 hours after a startling performance and result at Wolves. George and Andy with their usual forthright views. As ever all  our podcasts are available on on Spotify and iTunes and many […]

The esk podcasts: We’re not exactly rocket scientists

I’m making this the esk podcast with Rodger Armstrong and Paul Brown available to Talking the Blues listeners We look at the Wolves match but also a wider look at where we […]