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, 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, QPR (a), James Rodriguez & a frank exchange on who & where we are
Welcome to the latest Talking the Blues Podcast where we have a heartfelt discussion on where we are, how we arrived here and what we need to do. Our thoughts may not […]
Talking the Blues Podcast, “the winner takes it all” a look at the closing of the transfer window then the women’s team, how to attract a new audience?
This week’s Talking the Blues podcast goes deep into the transfer window. As well as examining what transpired, we look at what got us to this position in the first instance. Plenty […]
The hard work starts now
For as long as I’ve been writing about football finances I’ve tried to show that funds for players can only come from limited sources. Simply, if you want to buy and pay […]