Tyrrell steps down as Director of Communications

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After his absence from today's press conference unveiling Roberto Martinez as Everton's new manager fueled rumours that he would be leaving his post, Everton's Director of Communications, Paul Tyrrell, has stepped down according to The Telegraph.

Tyrrell joined the club 18 months ago, replacing Ian Ross in a temporary capacity before being given the position full time.

He was instrumental in steering Everton's recent rebranding efforts that included the introduction of the controversial new club badge, one which will be changed again for next season.

He also became embroiled in a local scandal last week when a scanned copy of an internal document he is believed to have prepared during his time at Liverpool FC was leaked onto the Internet.

The document profiled several journalists and Liverpool supporters groups who were supposedly in opposition to the Gillette and Hicks regime at Anfield and branded the Spirit of Shankly group as the "Khmer Rouge".

Prior to his role in Liverpool's press office, Tyrrell was Head of Communications at Manchester City FC.

 

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John Gee
1 Posted 05/06/2013 at 23:49:41
Good fucking riddance. Far too much cynicism in these positions. If the next person starts with the attitude that this role's description is Orwellian doublespeak then we should hound them out. A football club is a community and it'll long be a community even after it's no longer a viable business and these parasites on the game should be made aware of this relentlessly.
Kev Johnson
2 Posted 05/06/2013 at 23:58:18
John - the last time I looked, the whole world was indulging in Orwellian doublespeak. Not sure where you can go to avoid it. Apart from TW, of course.
Colin Glassar
3 Posted 06/06/2013 at 00:06:11
Hopefully kenwrong and elstone will follow suit very shortly.
Steve Bell
4 Posted 06/06/2013 at 00:28:38
He sounded like a very divisive and dishonourable person. Maybe the next guy will treat fans as friends not enemies. By using the term "Khmer Rouge" he not only showed complete ignorance but treated the victims of Pol Pot's regime with disrespect and dishonour. Shame on him and good riddance.
Alan Humphreys
5 Posted 06/06/2013 at 00:37:18
I was hoping someone would pay for the embarrassing farce of today's press conference. They couldn't even sit in front of their name cards. And who was the knob next to Kenwright who even when they were shuffling didn't have a clue.

If one incident summed up the organisation at the top of our club, then this name card fiasco was it. Embarrassing bunch of twats.

James Stewart
6 Posted 06/06/2013 at 01:12:34
Good riddance
Alan Ross
7 Posted 06/06/2013 at 04:36:44
Lets also hope the club also get rid of the 'Evolution of the Everton Crest' story on the OS site. While it's still there there is every chance that this joke of a badge will still be with us for 2014/15 season. Does anyone at Goodison have a clue in finding anyone other than confrontational buffoons for these positions.
Paul Andrews
8 Posted 06/06/2013 at 06:51:22
That's another Director of Communications seen off by the fans.
We have more power than we realise.
They have to listen if we shout loud enough.
Tom Owen
9 Posted 06/06/2013 at 08:12:16
If we can now all work at getting rid of our board of directors then that would be a job well done!
Peter Laing
10 Posted 06/06/2013 at 08:19:43
Elstone should be the next one to go for me, what has he brought to Everton during his time as CEO ? - absolutely nothing in terms of improving the club's commercial activity. The deal with kitbag is an embarrassment by today's EPL standards, he reminds me of one of these directors of the failing financial institutions who pick up a regular fat pay cheque regardless of their performance.
Mike Hughes
11 Posted 06/06/2013 at 08:17:34
Steve #332

Great post. I nearly choked on my shredded wheat.

Perhaps the powers that be do read fans' forums even if they don't engage.

Let's hope we can really push on from here. Clear out any dead wood early on, some new faces and execute RM's CL plan.

Fear the Mighty Blues.

Paul Andrews
12 Posted 06/06/2013 at 08:30:37
Peter Laing,

We need an overhaul of a lot of our administration.
The example you give re kit is spot on.
I think nearly every club in the Prem gets a better deal than us

Alan Williams
13 Posted 06/06/2013 at 08:20:20
Tom, why do you need to force the board out? Your statement makes no sense at all in the real world. The company need people to run it, it’s the shareholders that own EFC not necessary the Board of Directors and they can hold the shares and not even visit the place like our friend in the USA.

EFC's problem is lack of cash flow, this hasn’t changed for the last 15 years and having little cash means you make short-term decisions which naturally aren’t the best for a long-term business strategy. Football just doesn’t lend itself to normal business practise because too much of its earnings go into players wages and although in theory they are assets the asset wealth has limited return across the length of the contract. What it does is feed the animal of player power.

If you got rid of the board and BK tomorrow, it wouldn’t change EFC situation one bit it would actually harm our credibility with our creditors. We have two options available to us which is cash in on some players and use part of the fees to pay off our debt and reducing overheads so the business can run on a level playing field which is exactly what Villa are trying to do but you have the fear of relegation and lack of hope for us the fans.

The other option is to find new owners who will bridge the gap with their own wealth. EFC are looking at the latter and they have put all their eggs in this basket and so far it hasn’t delivered. At some point they will have to consider the first option; it's only a matter of time.

Chris Matheson
14 Posted 06/06/2013 at 08:59:21
Kenwright is running out of human shields to mask his dreadful performance. Moyes, now the divisive Tyrell. There's only Elstone left, although I hope Bobby Martinez can paper over the cracks by turning in a strong performance on the field.

Incidentally I wonder what Mr Tyrell wrote about the journalists, fans and websites at Everton?

Andrew Laird
15 Posted 06/06/2013 at 09:12:14
Maybe he didn't like the new badge either. A director of communications leaves silently through the back door, I love Everton.
Clive Rogers
16 Posted 06/06/2013 at 09:20:50
Don't hold your breath waiting for Kenwright to go, all the evidence is that he's there for the long haul. He's certainly not looking to sell. Unfortunately he could be there another 15 to 20 years.
Tom Hughes
17 Posted 06/06/2013 at 09:06:19
For "Communications" read "propagandist"...... like Ross before him, it would seem that we actually employ people just to counter the club's ever-growing number of detractors by whatever means necessary. Instead of trying to resolving the club's problems we seem to be more intent on hiding them and the incompetency that has produced them. All hardly indicative of a well run up front operation. I'm only surprised that it has taken the badge fiasco to highlight this for so many.
stuat parker
18 Posted 06/06/2013 at 09:31:09
I think his only job options now are either North Korea or Syria
Kev Johnson
19 Posted 06/06/2013 at 09:32:55
Tom - that's what Communications departments do in every sphere of life! They present the organisation in the best possible light, disguise or hide problems, attempt to establish a particular agenda, they "manage perceptions". This is not a problem with EFC, it's a wider problem. 'Communications' are a branch of advertising and marketing, that's all.
Paul Andrews
20 Posted 06/06/2013 at 09:37:04
They wouldn't have him
Paul Andrews
21 Posted 06/06/2013 at 09:38:35
Kevin,
Are they not meant to communicate?
John Keating
22 Posted 06/06/2013 at 09:35:57
This guy should never have been appointed in the first place.
The CEO must ultimately be responsible for the day to day running of the Club of which Elstone has been completely shite at doing - the list of disasters has been long and getting longer.
If Kenwright says he listens to the fans - another lie - his next TV appearance should be to announce the departure of Elstone.
Kev Johnson
23 Posted 06/06/2013 at 09:40:29
Paul - the very term "Communications Department" is a marketing invention. By calling it that, organisations make it sound nice and positive - whereas, in truth, what they are doing is in a sense the very opposite of communication, hence John Gee's reference to Orwellian doublespeak. Or to put it another way, when the mad emperor decided to parade before his people without any clothes, the communications department would have been employed to come up with a press release which praised his superb and wonderful new outfit, which only clever people could see. What used to be the Press Office is now rebranded as the Communications Dept, in the same way that the Personnel Dept is now Human Resources. It means sod-all.
Tom Hughes
24 Posted 06/06/2013 at 09:48:59
Paul you are right. ..... but when the communicated subject matter is purely propagandist as opposed to factual information, we have to question the motives and break down the issues, and they go far beyond the divisive attributes of a simple job description. Ross' leaked emails and Tyrrell's leaked documents suggest dirtier dealings and far dirtier ulterior motives than simply accentuating the positive.
Richard Dodd
25 Posted 06/06/2013 at 09:58:43
Kenwright and Elstone long ago proved their unsuitability to hold `high office` at our Club. Their choice of senior staff,particularly in the Communications and Marketing areas has long been a joke and is only indicative of the total lack of structure and proper governance in the organisation.Effectively,the club is being run like a Blue Square outfit although I suspect many clubs in the Conference would take exception to that remark!
What purpose the unsmiling Woods brought to yesterday`s proceedings,gawd only knows, and the Chairman`s performance was clearly an embarrassment to our new manager as well of all of us who had the misfortune to see it.
On relection,the coming together of Kenwright and his nodding dog,Woods,was probably as near to a Board Meeting as the Club ever gets.
A total shambles. Martinez has my sympathy!
Paul Andrews
26 Posted 06/06/2013 at 10:23:13
Tom,
I agree 100%.
And this from a guy who creates dossiers on fans behaviour.
Chris Regan
28 Posted 06/06/2013 at 10:51:52
Paul, Tom, I am a marketing professional and I can say that the marketing of the clubs is a shambles. For instance I never see links to Everton's online shop on TW or NSNO et al! Why not? I hope why have a clear out soon, the club needs reinvigorating commercially.
Paul Andrews
29 Posted 06/06/2013 at 11:40:56
Chris,

We are missing the trick here.
Potential earnings from commercial output far outweighs what we actually have coming in to the club.

Chris Regan
31 Posted 06/06/2013 at 12:37:10
Paul, I totally agree. Kenwright seems to be waiting for an investor, and in the meantime nothing has been done to make the club commercially attractive to an investor. Sales of assets, the kitbag deal, kings dock. Too many such debacles display a lack of hard nosed commercial know how at the club. Not to mention the plans for the Park End, how come the club went so far down the line without knowing they didn't own the land. There are other details such as the clubs twitter account tweeting Man U updates. Truly sad, still Elstone gets his circa 100k a year.
Al Reddish
32 Posted 06/06/2013 at 12:43:59
Doddy, I think you're being hacked into.
Matthew Johnson
33 Posted 06/06/2013 at 13:00:45
Dodd = Tyrrell

Now we know :)

Alex Bonnar
34 Posted 06/06/2013 at 12:55:23
i can't believe some of you guys - how you never miss a chance for a negative snipe, particularly about BK. How many of you have actually ever held a conversation with him or had any personal dealings whereas the people who know him and have done business like Dave Whelan or David Moyes speak highly of him.

What is your problem with someone who does his best for the club in the absence of anybody else stepping up. Either put up the money that you think he should have or tell us of your own business experience that is better than his.

Criticizing is such an easy option and consistent criticizing is just counter-productive. Honest, fairly held opinions are fine and interesting but unsupported 'facts' are just bullshit. Fair play and give the man some credit even although he makes mistakes and is not perfect.

Andrew Ellams
35 Posted 06/06/2013 at 13:21:18
Alex, put your tin hat on and duck
John Keating
36 Posted 06/06/2013 at 13:31:30
Alex - unbelievable!!

Let's keep you happy and let's rewrite history.

Unsupported facts??? Unbelievable.

Chris Regan
37 Posted 06/06/2013 at 13:48:11
Taxi for Alex Bonnar, taxi for Alex Bonnar!
Drew O'Neall
38 Posted 06/06/2013 at 13:33:57
Alex 479

Go on Everton TV this instance and watch the entire press conference.

If you sit through the whole thing and don't find Bill Kenwright the most arrogant, self-serving, sycophantic, egotistical, un-self-aware, jumped up little robber baron you have ever had the displeasure to listen to then you have my deepest sympathies.

Drew O'Neall
39 Posted 06/06/2013 at 13:50:48
..I don't even have a massive problem with the fact he won't sell the club or invest any money in it, it's just the contempt with which he holds his customers and fellow blues that staggers me.
Chris Regan
40 Posted 06/06/2013 at 14:10:57
Alex #479, one of the unwritten rules of ToffeeWeb is to go lightly when sticking up for Kenwright. You are right few of us have met him and I am sure he is a nice bloke. My problem with Bill Kenwright is the lack of commercial nouse being displayed by the club.

And, I have siad this a few times, if someone is going to buy the club they need to be getting more for their money than what they would get now.

Man City have a history that doesn't compare to Everton's, yet they were purchased as they had an excellent infrastructure. Everton need to develop as a business and move forward, the advanges of this would be two fold, 1. perhaps we would be able to purchase better players and 2. we would be more attractive to an investor.

Alan Williams
41 Posted 06/06/2013 at 14:12:15

All organisations use communications to lesson bad news with the most famous being the Labour Party who confirmed via an internal memo on September 11th attacks in the USA that this would be a good time to issue bad news stories domestically; does it get worse than that in communication offices?

Richard Dodd
42 Posted 06/06/2013 at 14:29:42
Chris, there is plenty of evidence that the Sheiks were attracted to Man City because the club came with an ultra modern stadium for a rent of just £2M per annum.
Much as I`ve come to dislike the Kenwright regime,I do believe our club is unsaleable — even at the £120M figure Stan Collymore prized out of them.

The increased stream of income from via TV revenue will paper over a few more cracks and release more funding for transfers and wages. It will probably be enough to cover BK`s arse for up to five more years.

Meanwhile the embarrassment of Teardrop Willie begins a new era.

Chris Regan
43 Posted 06/06/2013 at 14:37:50
Alan, 495, does it get worse than that? Yes mate believe me. I worked in companies that had a total disregard for the truth. Even losing court cases failed to dissuade them from their version of the truth. Does South Yorkshire Police ring a bell to anyone. They didn't even use a comms department to pedal their lies.

Totally off point now; Tyrrell is gone, good, let's hope someone comes in an doe's our club justice.

Drew O'Neall
44 Posted 06/06/2013 at 14:39:40
Alan,

That's how the guy makes me feel when he sits there and lies, not even bothering to make it confincing, to the people in front of him and the people who afford him his hedonistic lifestyle.

I qualified that it was an unpleasant simile and I'm obviously not suggesting his crimes are comparable, just how I felt.

Perhaps an overstatement in retrospect but I was trying to convey the feeling of someone sitting there with a smug smile, knowing that no-one buys it and trotting out shite with absolute impunity as he does.

Lil Short
45 Posted 06/06/2013 at 14:46:35
I'm a journalist and worked with both Ian Ross and Paul Tyrrell 20 something years ago and, for all his faults, at least Ross was an ardent Evertonian.

Paul Tyrrell was a typical redshite and absoutely loathed us - amazing how he ended up as Head of Communications for us.

Gavin Ramejkis
46 Posted 06/06/2013 at 14:30:12
Alex can you show me where in nearly 14 years Bill Kenwright has put a single penny, just £0.01 into Everton Football Club? He bought shares for a song all those years ago with money he had to borrow but that money went straight into the pocket of the seller Peter Johnson who actually did spend his own money on the club.

My consultancy business doesn't run at a loss and hasn't done since I started it in 2000, it hasn't asset stripped anything, it hasn't systematically and repeatedly lied to its customer base, it values and listens to its customers.

I've had indirect dealings with his peer group at Glyndebourne many years ago and unprompted to the last man said he was out of his depth and a small time Charlie who talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk, a Del Boy Trotter of the theatre world.

The day BK shifts his stinking carcass from Goodison with his entourage of carpet baggers and yes men I will happily give him credit for the party I will hold.

Eugene Ruane
47 Posted 06/06/2013 at 14:39:00
It is incredible (to me) how prepared some are to simply ignore reality.

To say "bollocks to the truth, I prefer to exist in a complete fantasy world where everything is nice and everyone is nice to each other"

I give you Alex (479) - "I can't believe some of you guys - how you never miss a chance for a negative snipe, particularly about BK. How many of you have actually ever held a conversation with him or had any personal dealings whereas the people who know him and have done business like Dave Whelan or David Moyes speak highly of him. What is your problem with someone who does his best for the club in the absence of anybody else stepping up".

I really have to ask you Alex, do you work for Everton FC or have you just woken, after 12 years in a coma?

Speaking for myself, I don't NEED to have a 'conversation' with him.

Hearing lame anecdotes about 'my Jenny' or Dave Hickson or the boys pen won't change any of the bullshit - well, will it?

Jeffrey Archer I'm sure can be engaging - I'm sure with a glass in one hand and a vol-au-vent in the other, on the balcony of his luxury riverside apartment, he can appear wonderful company.

But that would change the fact he's a proven liar, a fantasist, a shifty self-serving bullshitting twat and NO amount of conversations with him will change that.

As for Maggie Thatcher cheer-leader, Dave 'Werthers' Whelan, speaking 'highly' of BK - give me a fucking break.

In 2011 Whelan told a radio station that black players have "just got to get on with it" and that those who do complain about on-field insults are "a little bit out of order".

He also (after spending 40 years whining about his FUCKING broken leg) defended Macmanaman's horrific tackle last season with something along the lines "Ee wunt doo owt like that, ee int that type o'lad" - oh well that's fine then.

(nb: I would personally take Whelan calling me a shit-bag as the highest compliment and would be VERY concerned if he thought I was 'alright').

It's funny, a post saying 'you fucking idiot' has a good chance of being removed from TW, but posts like yours are, imo, much more insulting because they assume Evertonians as a group are stupid - stupid enough to ignore (or not notice) years of bullshit and simply buy into an alternative of "Hey, be nice, don't be awful".

Kevin Tully
48 Posted 06/06/2013 at 14:50:47
The Echo reporting the decision was made by Tyrrell last month - before badgegate & the release of the dossier.

Do you remember they said the same before Ross left? He was supposedly going to another department within the club!

It's actually quite funny, 'Nah, he had already handed his notice in before all this kicked off.' type denials.

Gavin Ramejkis
49 Posted 06/06/2013 at 14:54:06
Eugene Ruane come on down, have we got just the job for you!
Derek Wadeson
50 Posted 06/06/2013 at 15:03:45
Gavin 503 - My business has not lost any money since 1993, but if I had to pay around twenty of my staff £50K per week each it would
Gavin Ramejkis
51 Posted 06/06/2013 at 15:33:49
Derek are they worth the £50k; a business should pay its staff commensurate to what value on the P&L they bring - £50k for a malingerer that doesn't make the company at least £50k profit is commercial suicide.

A business is very different from an old boys club charity

Paul Andrews
52 Posted 06/06/2013 at 16:25:25
Alex Bonnar,

"The people who have done business with him speak highly of him" — Probably because he is an easy touch,as shown by Kitbag, the buyers of Finch Farm (our landlords) etc etc.

Alex Bonnar
53 Posted 06/06/2013 at 17:52:02
Hi! I've been out and just returned to find some response to my earlier posting.

Many of the responses are fairly predictable from the usual BK critics and who will never have anything good to say about him, having only convinced themselves by their own arguments. Some of these views are just opinionated invective but some are genuinely held and respected but do nothing to change my own view that credit should be given to BK when due.

As only an occasional 'dipper-in' to TW (much too negative by some contributors) I have no intention of getting involved in the minutiae of individual arguments but I will question a couple of points raised.

Finance, do you really think that Johnson (a hard-headed businessman) just gave EFC to BK – so he had nothing to pay? Not realistic – maybe you know the accurate financial details if so let us all know (not opinions) please. No, I do not work for EFC although I enjoyed a season ticket for 50 years which gives me a certain broad perspective. While on TW (occasionally) I enjoy many of the differing issues and views held – particularly appreciate the professionalism of the balanced reports/views of Lyndon Lloyd and I'm genuinely looking forward to an interesting next season.
Over and out, no tin hat needed.

Paul Andrews
54 Posted 06/06/2013 at 18:34:55
Alex,
Have another look at the press conference video.
Would you trust this man to invest your life savings?

Latest contradiction form Mr Chairman....yesterday" Roberto got his plastic sheets out and showed me how he beat City......today "Roberto got his iPad out and showed me how he beat City"
An old saying....to be a good liar you have to have a good memory.

Paul Gladwell
55 Posted 06/06/2013 at 18:42:44
I see sunned Bob is bleating on today in th Echo about the values of our Latin motto!

Yes, the same prick who took it off our badge! One phoney fucker he is, made me cringe with his musical chairs yesterday.

Paul Andrews
56 Posted 06/06/2013 at 18:42:23
Here is another lie for you.

Mr Chairman in today's newspapers...."I took Jenny to see Marti Pellow in Evita on the Saturday afternoon. I looked at my watch and said shall we go and have a look at Roberto in the cup final?.....We got there just before kick-off."
The cup final kicked off at 5:15pm.
Google the time the matinee of Evita, on the other side of London, finished that day.

Ray Roche
58 Posted 06/06/2013 at 18:52:33
Paul Andrews,

I think you'll find that Mr Kenwright is telling the truth.


Elvis told me. He was with them.

Paul Andrews
59 Posted 06/06/2013 at 18:55:32
I thought it was Eddie Kavanagh. ( God rest his soul)
John Keating
60 Posted 06/06/2013 at 19:02:58
Alex, sorry mate. If you are not aware of the financial shenanigans of the Johnson/Kenwright/Gregg/True Blue Holdings by now then it's a complete waste of time dredging it all up now. It's been in the public domain for years!!

You say you went out and just came back, well, you must have gone out about 14 years ago!!

David Jones
61 Posted 06/06/2013 at 19:25:23
I have to agree with everyone else, Alex! He is a complete bullshitter of the highest order and a complete amateur in the running of a football club. Having said that, I do think he has the clubs best interests at heart... he's just a shit chairman.

Forget all the romancing he does in the press – it's all bullshit. I'm convinced he thinks we all really like him; he would hate that illusion to be shattered, hence we only see him romancing about the good times and not tackling serious issues.

Eugene Ruane
62 Posted 06/06/2013 at 20:29:23
Alex - "I have no intention of getting involved in the minutiae of individual arguments"

Ha ha ha, I bet you don't.

Actually I quite like that line - it's the kind of line one associates with some red-cheeked, floppy-haired M.P who has been caught with his hand in the drawer (or someone's drawers) and is wriggling like fuck.

A way of saying 'shit, my 'argument' won't stand up to scrutiny so I'm running away in a zig-zag fashion and throwing smoke bombs as I do'

The truth is, debating the 'minutiae of individual arguments' would mean dealing in facts, which would mean confronting reality and I think we all know, having read your initial piece of Private Godfrey-style, none-specific fluff, that is DEFINITELY not going to happen.

Carl Sanderson
63 Posted 06/06/2013 at 20:33:51
Alex 479:

“You’ll never get a better salesman than Bill Kenwright for Everton Football Club” - Bill Kenwright, 12th August 2011.

“I wish I knew (why Everton haven’t been sold)….I have no idea” - Bill Kenwright, 12th August 2011.

Michael Kenrick
Editorial Team
64 Posted 06/06/2013 at 20:40:29
Alex,

"Do you really think that Johnson (a hard-headed businessman) just gave EFC to BK – so he had nothing to pay?

I can't see where anyone suggested that. Presumably it was in response to this: He bought shares for a song all those years ago with money he had to borrow but that money went straight into the pocket of the seller Peter Johnson who actually did spend his own money on the club.

The facts are that True Blue Holdings (Kenwright's consortium) paid Johnson just £857 a share for around around 70% of the outstanding shares. That was a lot less than the exchange price anyone else was paying for Everton shares. And at just £30M, the club was arguably very undervalued. (But admittedly there were no other buyers.)

As you said in an earlier post: "Honest, fairly held opinions are fine and interesting but unsupported 'facts' are just bullshit."

And Eugene makes a very valid point. Don't expect to come here and drop your bombs then run off.

Chris Regan
66 Posted 06/06/2013 at 22:48:55
Michael, think we can put this one to bed now, but wasn't there a US firm of venture capitalists interested in buying us at the time. I seem to remember googling them and looking the co up. Thy are based in NY.
Gavin Ramejkis
67 Posted 07/06/2013 at 00:02:38
Chris if that NY story is the one that emerged a few seasons ago with some vague reference to one of the guys being an Evertonian the chap himself came out and denied all knowledge, another of those Season Ticket renewal, fan unrest moments when the old fairy tales get rolled out with the slightest of dust offs and some names changed on them. Bernard Mullin back in March 2011, ooh look at that date, season ticket time again?
Steve Green
68 Posted 07/06/2013 at 01:56:07
To Alex Bonnar @ #479, perhaps I can explain your naivity to you.
Moyes received £65k per week to tow the party line and not bad mouth Kenwright.
Whelan has received somewhere prob in the region of £2-2.5m to gush lovie words about his relationship with all things Kenwright.
Now start your contribution again please...
Andrew Bulmer
69 Posted 07/06/2013 at 08:39:02
I suppose we will have to assume that this is related to the crest farce and if so it's not surprising that at least one head rolled. It's important now that this prompts a review of the strategic direction and skills required to achieve it.

I understand that Everton have a number of disadvantages re marketing and media profile and that the media in particular is awash/infested by LFC connections (BTW, Did you realise, when Saurez did his biting, all 7 TV presenters and pundits on Sky and then MotD supported and/or played for Liverpool... just as an example – there are literally thousands more). Impartial fair-minded representation guaranteed... 7 out of 7 from a possible 90 odd clubs.

The next EFC person responsible needs to step up here. It is wholly fortuitous we are in general and comparatively an extremely well behaved and relatively successful club, the day only knows what would happen if EFC players bit someone, stamped, dived, or the club settled out of court on transfer dealings etc etc etc.

When the BBC, Echo, SKY etc ignore (positive stories unwritten/poorly positioned), denigrate (use of patronising language/poor photographs), they should be taken to task. It is easy to spot and has been going on for years.
The next person/people need to get a grip of this.

One last point here Everton have finished above Liverpool for the last two years on a fraction of the budget and in a billion times better behaved way. According to the media and many on here who are clearly unaffected by it !! Everton constantly balls up and are heading for doom whilst Liverpool are progressing fast with glory awaiting them..

I urge you to have a closer look at how likely that actually is.

Chris Regan
70 Posted 07/06/2013 at 09:28:42
Gavin, there was a US venture capitalist firm bidding for us when Kenwright bought everton back in the day. This wasn't a season ticket ploy. As BK wasn't at the helm then.
Chris Regan
71 Posted 07/06/2013 at 09:31:19
Andrew Bulmer, good points in your last paragraph. Looking at it things are being done well somewhere at the club, not commercially though.
Chris Regan
72 Posted 07/06/2013 at 09:49:11
Here is a link to the story of us being bought by Kenwright and an excerpt below.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/476619.stm

'On Monday accountants representing Manhattan-based EM Warburg Pincus and Co can begin checking the books of the Goodison Park club with a view to their deal being completed.

The Warburg Pincus bid is believed to have been brokered by computer games entrepreneur and Everton fan Paul Finnegan.

It was presented to Johnson's Leeds-based brokers Arthur Anderson, and accepted by the Jersey-based major shareholder.

The scene is set for a battle for control between Kenwright and the Americans, with the impresario facing the possibility of being voted off the board by Johnson's majority control at Thursday's AGM.

Kenwright has yet to make a formal bid, although a rival consortium of North West businessmen have had a £30m offer rejected.'

Gavin Ramejkis
73 Posted 07/06/2013 at 12:02:13
Chris not sure what happened to Paul Finnegan, he made a killing when home consoles like the Playstation grew in popularity but he sold Rage to his wife for a pound to become Swordfish which was later sold into Vivendi and sold again into Codemasters, Activision have left them in limbo fate unknown.
Tim O'Connell
74 Posted 07/06/2013 at 12:47:00
I can add a bit of the story for Chris and Gavin. In Paul's consortia I understand was Jon Woods and David Ward, both having been with Paul in the video games market, but Jon Woods jumped ship and took David with him and joined BK. Paul I believe found this out by overhearing a conversation on the train. Paul still has some investments in the Computer games market but is very passive now.
Robert Workman
75 Posted 07/06/2013 at 14:17:25
Just catching up with this thread (so much interesting Everton stuff to read these days!). Earlier on someone asked if anyone had met Bill Kenwright. I did 10 years ago.

Before I continue I should state that I share the opinions of the majority on TW that the Press Conference was embarrassing, particularly the completely unnecessary references to David Moyes. I thought Roberto Martinez handled the situation well, but I prefer his interview on Evertontv.

Back then, one of my daughters worked with Bill Kenwright's daughter in London. When he discovered that she was an Evertonian, he arranged to take her to see The Blues at Arsenal. It was the infamous “Alex Nyarko” match – a 4-1 defeat. After the game, he took my daughter to his home, with his daughter, and put his arm round her apologising for the defeat.

He also promised to arrange for tickets for myself for a home game, when the girls were both back in the area. This duly happened and I was sat in the front row of the Directors Box (you probably saw me!), with my daughter one row behind. Coincidentally we were playing Charlton, the team that my daughter's boyfriend supported. So he also had a ticket – in the Charlton section of the Director's Box!

I must just add that it was a strange experience sitting there. Firstly I was wearing a suit and tie for the first and only time at a football match. Secondly I did not feel part of the crowd, but the noise sort of swept around me – a great feeling. It was also a smashing view, really quite close to the players.

I met Bill Kenwright before the game and we briefly exchanged pleasantries, mostly about my history as an Evertonian. I remember that he was pre-occupied with his daughter, who he was clearly delighted to see.

The highlights of the day for me, however, were:-

1. Being smiled at by Dave Hickson.
2. Radzinski (sp?) scoring the only goal from a superb through pass by one of my favourites – Tommy Gravesen. Btw, in my opinion, Scott Parker was MotM (I wish we had bought him).
3. Meeting Wayne Rooney just before leaving. I was surprised at how small he was. Another coincidence – his photo was centre fold in the programme. So I asked him to sign it for “my little girl”. He looked at my 27-year-old daughter and probably thought, “You've got a right one here!”.

Ross Edwards
78 Posted 07/06/2013 at 19:46:08
Paul "Pot" Tyrell finally going. How he got that job is beyond me, but typical of our idiotic board and chairman I suppose.

An RS Kopite as OUR Director of Communications, then, a supposed Kopite designing our abomination of a crest.

Whatever next eh? Gerrard as Director of Football?

David Greenwood
79 Posted 07/06/2013 at 21:58:27
You or Eugene for me Ross.

Whoever it is has to be a Blue, no more RS please.


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