Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast with Andy and George Costigan. Unusually we focus (almost entirely) on the football, odd given what must have been one of the least […]
Bermuda & its relevance to Everton’s proposed takeover by 777 partners (revisited)
Back in early November 2023, I wrote a fairly detailed article explaining the relationship between 777 Partners, Bermuda and the potential purchase of Everton Football Club. It was not a typical article […]
Talking the Blues Podcast, Manchester City (a) and the Premier League
Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast looking back on the Manchester City game, analysing in particular Dominic Calvert -Lewin (in an objective way). We look at the Premier League and […]
Everton’s debt position, the ownership alternatives
There’s been some discussion as to Everton’s current debt position in recent times, particularly if as seems increasingly probable, the proposed acquisition of Moshiri’s 94.1% stake in Everton by777 partners fails to […]
Talking the Blues Podcast, Tottenham Hotspur (H), and the the Independent Commission Appeal
Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast with George and Andy Costigan. We look back on Everton’s fighting 2-2 draw at Goodison versus Tottenham before a detailed look at how we […]
Talking the Blues Podcast, Luton Town (h) FA Cup Round 4 and everything else
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 […]
Talking the Blues Podcast, Crystal Palace replay (h), Two charges, one masters, three sevens
Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast with Andy and George Costigan. We refence the 3rd round FA Cup replay, the Gomes free-kick before turning our attention to two charges, one […]
Talking the Blues Podcast, Crystal Palace (A) FA Cup, VAR, Pickford, transfer window, ownership
Welcome to the first Talking the Blues Podcast of 2024 with George and Andy Costigan. Before delving into some quite heavy stuff (including prophetic words from Andy and George post the Anfield […]
Talking the Blues Podcast, Spurs (a), Christmas Eve and stuff
Welcome to a Christmas Eve recording of Talking the Blues Podcast with George and Andy Costigan. We look back on a narrow loss to Tottenham, but a loss that had much to […]
Talking the Blues Podcast, Burnley (a) time for grown ups to appear in the boardroom
Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast with George and Andy Costigan. We look back on a momentous few games, four wins, four clean sheets and the impact Sean Dyche’s mentality […]
In the bleak mid-winter….
Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone…….With the exceptional uplift in results of recent weeks, it is tempting to believe that the huge difficulties facing Everton […]
Talking the Blues Podcast, Nottingham Forest (a), updates on ownership & the appeal
Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast with George and Andy Costigan. A defiant Everton backed by magnificent support once more travel to the City Ground, Nottingham, home of Nottingham Forest […]
Talking the Blues Podcast, Manchester United (H), the protests and the appeal
Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues with Andy and Geoorge Costigan. We delve into Andy and George’s favourite game of the season (although inevitably not our favourite result). We applaud the […]
The significant issues facing 777 Partners and therefore Everton & regulators
The downgrading of a relatively obscure Bermuda based reinsurer should have little consequence for a 144 year old football club, having arguably its most encouraging sequence of games in several years (albeit […]
Summary of the Commission decision, aggravating factors, mitigation claims and the sanction
Trying to condense 28,000 documents, several months of pre-commission preparations and five days of complex legal argument into something that is (i) readable but (ii) an accurate representation of proceedings is quite […]
Talking the Blues Podcast, the Commission and the Premier League
Welc.ome to this week’s Talking the Blues podcast in which George and Andy take a detailed look at the Commission findings. We dig a bit deeper into the hearing, looking at the […]
Talking the Blues Podcast, Crystal Palace (a), Dyche, VAR, Godfrey and yes, 777
Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast with George and Andy Costigan. We look back on a hugely enjoyable gane and result at Selhurst Park, talk about Dyche, Godfrey and VAR. […]
Everton, reinsurance and Bermuda, how are they connected?
Following Everton, trying to understand the current difficulties of the club financially, let alone trying to rationalise the logic of the current proposed takeover takes you, the reader, and I, the author, […]
Talking the Blues Podcast, Brighton HA (h), Dyche, Dein and destiny
Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues podcast with George and Andy Costigan. Apologies for the delay in publishing this week. We look back on the 1-1 home draw with Brighton which […]
Talking the Blues podcast, West Ham United (a), the passing of Bill Kenwright, the commission & our future ownership
Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast with Andy & George Costigan. We start with our personal reflections on the sad passing of Bill Kenwright CBE, Chairman of Everton Football Club […]