Season 2011-12 Fan Articles

A Brief Summary of the Present Situation

By Richard   Tarleton  ::  17/07/2011   65 Comments (»Last) I've been hammering the Malbec, so please forgive me if, despite all my academic qualifications, this is a simplistic summary of the present situation at Everton FC.

Since Johnson "beat" Kenwright to the position of Everton's number one man, a decision I felt was correct, on the grounds that Kenwright hadn't the resources to make us competitive at the top level.

Kenwright subsequently got his wish to be head honcho, and I've been complaining since 2002 that "Our True Blue Chairman" was at best inadequate, living in a fantasy world, and at worst totally useless. The best part of a decade later on, there seems to be a general agreement that he is totally (you choose the adjective:) "inadeqate", "useless", etc...

He has a manager who is willing to live with a coat that reflects the quality of the cloth he provides, and who is able to make the most of minimal resources, by adopting a style of play that limits the possibilities of defeat. In Moyes's world success is seventh or thereabout

I became an Evertonian although my family were all Liverpool supporters; as was the custom in those far off days, we went to Goodison and Anfield every other week. My first Everton game was to see us win 8-4 against Plymouth. I've been waiting the best part of 60 years to see another game with twelve goals in it, though I did see eleven when we beat Cardiff City in the early sixties.

I expect Everton to live up to their motto, "Nil Satis Nisi Optimum" which roughly translated means we're never second to Liverpool!

I don't understand what happened at the end of the eighties when the Grantchester family sold the club and left us in the mire, there are so many questions that have never really been answered about that period.

As for Kenwright, the latest articles with statistical support show the man's total inadequacy. Think of the failures: the King's Dock, surely the biggest cock-up in any club's portfolio; the Russian takeover; Kirkby, he actually wanted to go there; and the rest.

There is no answer. Evertonians are not going to boycott the matches.I fear that the worst case scenario is becoming relegation fodder, as we were in the late nineties, in a couple of years time. I supported Everton originally, because we got promoted and Liverpool got relegated in that season of 53-54. I dread to see us going back to the Second Division (not the silly term, "Championship") and I fear we'll become another Sheffield Wednesday, unless somehow control is wrested from "True Blue Billy" and his board of useless compeers.

I have a mate who's on the board at Wednesday and I know exactly what happens when you lose the momentum. I fear we're on that slippery slope. Please God we're not ? I believe in miracles, I was at Wembley in 1966 and know that when that man went down in G64 of the old Wemblety and said a prayer when we went two down, God answered our prayers, because secretly God is an Evertonian.

I met the great "Dixie", my dad (check my surname), was a friend; Bill Dean and Alex Parker (whom I knew) would be turning in their graves at the present situation.

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