Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast with George and Andy Costigan. Yes, there’s only one topic in town, what do Everton do now? Will Benitez be relieved of his duties, […]
Talking the Blues Podcast, Norwich City (a) the final countdown?
Talking the Blues podcast, Hull City (a), Benitez interview, Digne, Graeme Sharp
Welcome to this week’s edition of Talking the Blues Podcast with Andy and George Costigan. We look back on the FA Cup third round tie with Hull City, explore VAR and look […]
Talking the Blues podcast, Brighton & Hove Albion (h) Farhad Moshiri do you care as much as the fans do?
Welcome to the first Talking the Blues podcast of 2022, following the shambolic (in every sense) performance against Brighton & Hove Albion. We discuss the match for a short while before turning […]
Part V, Everton’s ownership and leadership: A winning strategy
In this 5th part of a look at Everton’s ownership and leadership, I’m going to look at strategy. In particular a winning strategy, what is it and what’s required to achieve it. […]
Talking the Blues podcast, Boxing Day edition. Respect!
Welcome to this Boxing Day edition of Talking the Blues Podcast with George and Andy Costigan. In the absence of a game today – when was the last Boxing Day that Everton […]
Talking the Blues podcast, Chelsea (a), transfers, ESSG & secret santa
Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues podcast where we reflect on a much better night at Chelsea than any of us could have reasonably expected. We look at the transfer story […]
Talking the Blues Podcast, Crystal Palace (a) Time is running out?
Welcome to this weeks Talking the Blues, Time is running out? We examine for whom exactly is time running out. A deeply cathartic experience. As ever all our podcasts are available on […]
Talking the Blues Podcast, Arsenal (h), Brands, the 27 minutes for 27 years campaign and much more
So much to talk about in this episode of Talking the Blues with Andy Costigan and George. The Arsenal match, Brands, the 27 minutes for 27 years campaign, Andy losing his internet […]
27 minutes for 27 years
The #27minutesfor27years campaign is an embryonic campaign like no other in the history of Everton Football Club. It’s an informal alliance of supporter groups, fan organisations and individuals with a clear purpose. […]
Talking the Blues podcast, Moody Blues, post-match analysis, followed by an appeal to Farhad Moshiri
Welcome to Talking the Blues in which we analyse the 4-1 Derby loss to Liverpool. We look at the comparison of Liverpool’s development over the last ten years compared to ours over […]
Direct questions for Everton’s major shareholder, Farhad Moshiri
There are many specific questions relating to footballing matters, finance, operations and strategy which can be asked of board members by shareholders at the Annual General Meeting. However I wanted to address […]
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 […]
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, 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 […]
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, WHU (h) & a heartfelt discussion on Newcastle, the Saudi’s & the Premier League
Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues. 40 minute or so on the West Ham game before a really heartfelt discussion on the Premier League, broadcaster reaction to the Saudis and where […]