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There has been a huge change in the way people react now to the times gone by and not for the better imo but going back to 1964 and in the car park at Anfield for a night game between Liverpool and Everton, it was crowded and I noticed a Rolls Royce with a canvas top and an elderly man sitting on his own in it— I recognised the driver John Moores so I knocked on his window which he rolled down and asked him if he could spare me a couple of minutes, he just nodded go ahead, we were rumoured to be after Fred Pickering at the time so I asked him what the the chances were of us getting him, he never said yes or no but said “ If the manager asks me for money he has never been refused before” so I took that has a yes and we signed him not long after. John Moores lived here of course but mingled with the fans before the game going into the players entrance and years later getting wheeled into the same entrance in his wheelchair.

An owner of the club who embraced and knew the value of the fans who supported the club in the good and bad times even then but that value was never more needed twice in two years when we dragged that team and the manager into staying in the premier league once when the chairman and the board with a former player on it had deserted the club and left it fight on it’s own with just Dyche and Thelwell fighting the odds with us— John Moore’s knew the value of the fans and the fans will judge the owners of the club with how they perform in the interests of the club and won’t begrudge them making Brewsters as long as they put some silverware in the trophy room— they will also smell bullshitters who look after their own interest’s more from a mile away.

Good for you John, no I didn’t I’m sorry to say, I didn’t have a bet in the comp. at all.

I didn’t have a bet on my namesake Fox in the Open Golf either, he would have been a hell of a price. Can’t bet for daft reason like that though. I did remember his dad playing stand off for the All Blacks many moons ago.

Although I was down on England most of the comp. the way Spain played, England maybe could have beaten them in the final if they had won against the Argies. Ifs a very big word though.

He’ll be there until May Kevin but it will be a rinse and repeat type season.

I don’t see the 3 promoted teams making much of an impression and I think Sunderland, Bournemouth and Palace will suffer with the addition of European football so we’re never going to be in any serious danger of relegation.

On the positive, to me the transfer strategy over the past 12 months looks like a club planning for life after Moyes. They just need to step up with another few additions.

The one thing TFG should not be allowed to get away with is keeping Moyes in place. I doubt whether they told him to ‘not try’ in the cup matches and solely concentrate on the league as that is something Moyes has done all his managerial career with us (apart from the odd exception). You just know (I really hope I’m wrong) that it will be another shit show and Moyes will be gone before Christmas and there’s another season down the tube without any success. This club needs winners and people with ambition and Moyes and TFG simply don’t fit that description from what I’ve seen over the last 18 months.

I was very sceptical about American owners when we got taken over last year by them and the whole thing has so far played out as I expected.

It will take something special this coming season for them to convince many people otherwise