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 […]

Talking the Blues podcast, Walter Smith RIP, Wolves (a), substitutes, rule changes & much more

Massive agenda in this week’s Talking the Blues podcast with Andy and George. Firstly, we pay tribute to our former manager Walter Smith, RIP who sadly passed away earlier this week. We […]

Benitez is right in calling for improvement across the board

“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year” – John Foster Dulles When a […]

Talking the Blues podcast, Watford home, club, players, managers or any number of reasons

Talking the Blues podcast gets together to look at today’s disappointing result and above the obvious headline, tries to put some reason behind our current dilemma……..     Thanks to Andy and […]