Bill Kenwright pens open letter to #AllTogetherNow movement

BREAKING: A collective of Everton fan groups say they'll call off the protests at every home game if there's a change at Board level

The #AllTogetherNow group's responding to reports of imminent investment at #EFC

They've held marches against the running of the club since Feb pic.twitter.com/LKTX771vfp

— Giulia Bould (@GiuliaBould) April 18, 2023

I've just seen Bill Kenwright's statement!

I thought I was reading a petulant child?

What a time to bring this out before an important game…

Keep digging, Mr Kenwright.

And the ‘horror'. Think he has gone full Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.

Kenwright might love Everton but he sounds like he hates Evertonians.

Please mods, can you replace that pic with something else? What a fucking knobhead that fella is.

No, I am kidding but that is obviously the response he expects seeing as his dying swan routine yields sympathy and he has been wheeling that out since long before the 2015 he mentions. I am assuming he's being ironic about what other boards think of ours? A laughing stock maybe?

Oh and the "Chairman Bill" sign-off is clearly a piss-take after we've roundly mocked him as such (eg, a Chairman Mao type dictator) for years.

Disingenuous bunch of crap.

Ill health, CEO should take flak, 24/7 search for funding etc… It should generate some fun comments!

Pure hubris.

I've read it several times. He seems to be saying “I'm ill, so cut me some slack. I'm not responsible, the CEO is. I was instrumental in our survival last season. You are ungrateful for what I've done, you will hound me out”.

He doesn't seem to have read the room very well.

He's doubling down. But he's losing some of his polish, this feels peevish, he doesn't normally give in to that. He's too crafty.

I don't think he's improved things at all with this public announcement, which is unusual for him.

I have not taken to joining in bashing him but turned fundamentally against him after the alleged incident with the CEO.

This is such a poor letter, it can only further damage the club. No decent person truly wishes someone in his position to suffer in illness but the focus on this outweighs anything of other value in the letter.

We know what a chairman and a CEO do, why say the CEO is top-notch and he works so hard he can't take a holiday…? Again, adds no value, misses the point, and is probably bollocks.

Why not do or say something that adds value to the club and the desperate situation the leadership have put us in???

The timing of this message is questionable. The content is unfathomable.

Sometimes it is better to say nothing. This was such a time.

Unbelievable!!!

Chairman Bill, it's over, you've had your chance, many times over, and failed miserably. Now is the time to do the honourable thing and let the club move forward.

What a crock of nonsense.

As someone said... he's our own Colonel Kurtz.

Denise: "Why are you blaming me, Bill?"

Bill: "Your an errand boy!"

What a self-serving wanker of a man he is.

This patronising put-down ignores any responsibility for our present situation. Ignores the reasons we are being subjected to public humiliation of an alleged breach of rules for which he, the board, and in particular Grant Ingles has a personal accountability for.

This isn't and never has been about Chairman Bill's health; it's not about how hard people work. It's about competence, it's about leadership – the lack of it, it's about integrity – the lack of it. It's about trust and the lack of it.

It's 5 am… Great sodding start to another critical matchday here… prat.

The letter does not aim to do anything other than put down concerned fans with platitudes – not answers.

The CEO runs the club. "Not my responsibility. I got you a billionaire…" Priceless!!!

To say the Chairman doesn't run the club, the CEO does, is immediately deflecting blame as he once said he didn't know anything about the accounts because he was only the Chairman.

This is yet another attempt to pacify the gullible and get some sympathy.

What happened to retiring at 70, Bill. You've already admitted you are not responsible for anything so go now – and take the in-crowd with you.

If I hadn't have already renewed mine, I would have seriously contemplated not doing so, having read Chairman Bill's statement.

Frank ran to the Directors Box and Bill thinks that is a tribute to his tireless efforts and acumen? No, Bill, you and the rest of your 'cult' should have been ashamed of how we got to that point in the season before securing our status.

Even today, with just seven important games still to play, we aren't assured of our top division status, and that is beyond shameful.

If I met him in the street, I wouldn't barrack him, or hurl abuse. I would ignore the egocentric millionaire who has most obviously lost the plot.

If it were possible, which it isn't and Bill knows it, I would begin watching another club, for as long as Bill and his mates are in situ.

You should, as my mum used to say, wash your mouth out with carbolic soap, you fucking creep. You have been a curse on this club since the day you carried out your backstabbing coup.

I don't give a shit about your fake illness, your bullshit Boys Pen tales, your fucking “good times” etc… You are a serial liar and you need to go now – taking your fucking cronies with you.

I've just started doing the same after reading that open letter and can only hope I'm able to stop soon, before I have to start carrying a card around explaining I've got an incurable medical condition like Joaquin Phoenix in ‘Joker'.

Jesus.

Bill may believe he's bordering on Martin Luther King from Birmingham Jail with this missive, but it reads far more Jack Torrance from the Overlook Hotel.

It's like he's tried to sit Evertonia collectively on his knee ala little Danny, to reassure us everything is fine, not realising that the wolfish look in his eyes along with the crazed cadence of his words is only serving to further creep us right the fuck out:

Bill/Jack: “I love you, Blues. I love you more than anything else in the whole world. I would never do anything to hurt you. Never. You know that, don't you? Huh?”



Evertonians: (wary/glum) “Yes, dad.”



Bill/Jack: “Good.”

Off his head.

A brain tumour was mentioned once, a few weeks ago it was he can hardly see, he's going blind – but not as blind as he thinks we are to all the cock-up he's made.

“They are even pickin' on Sharpy” – Who the fuck is “Sharpy”? He's nearly as phoney as yourself, he knew what you are but followed you for the money.

You should have made this statement on TV so they could put the violin music in the background while the tears rolled down your cheeks.

If you're ill, why on earth do you even continue in that role? You have a successful theatre business that should be your main focus. Step down and let someone competent do the job.

Absolutely astonishing stuff. Pitiful.

I stopped at Grant and Sharpy being attacked.

This is not a response – this is messaging. Talking past crucial points to establish some imaginary higher moral ground.

I no longer believe he is one of us.

You say you do not run the football club, but you are the Chairman of a Board that do run the club. With the difficulties that have arisen since you became Chairman, why do you allow a Board who, time after time, fail to make important decisions, while allowing the club to become one of the worst run clubs in the Premier League?

Why as Chairman should you not be solving the problems and not making excuses and switching the blame?

As Chairman, you say you do not run the club; could you please explain to the supporters who does?

He has more front than Lewis's, his words are all a personal justification, never an admission of fault or contrition. Where is the apology for the condemnation of fans? There is a hardened steel streak of indifference and arrogance in his continual self-righteous approach.

There has been complete and utter silence and absence of leadership in our current plight, that people have looked to the club for reassurance or action. Instead, we get this tripe.

The board is finished; we know it, they know it. Not good enough, never has been. What people fail to understand is that the failure to manage the affairs of this club over the past two decades is responsible for the plight we are in.

2. The Arteta money will be invested in new signings once we have paid for the new lawnmowers.

3. He did not know they were students playing a prank – remember that one trying to sell the club in a bedsit in Manchester.

4. Destination Kirkby – probably, no, definitely the most dividing issue that has ever happened to our club. Blue vs Blue, it was a disgrace that never should have happened but did because allegedly someone may have made a lot of money.

5. Yes, he did find a billionaire who has been allowed to wreck the club's finances and could result in us being put into administration.

I personally have nothing but the utmost contempt for his bullshit he has been the worst chairman ever to have held that position at our club. I just wish he would resign and go into the sunset while he is there we will never be successful.

Oh I forgot Number 6: The sheikhs who took over at Manchester City had Everton as their first choice, but Billy Boy would not sell because he would have been shown the door.

Claimed the deal fell through allegedly because of the state of Goodison Park and it would have cost too much to redevelop. We all fell for that one; the sheikhs paid over 𧹈M to build a state-of-the-art training facility. I very often despair at Evertonians because the other lot would have run him out of town 20 years ago.

Rant over… but continue the board out protests – it is obviously getting to him!

Or has she got nothing to say – as it seems she hasn't had anything to say for quite some time…?

Well, he's picked the wrong day to publish this nonsense. 50,000 plus of our supporters will sleep uneasy tonight hoping that our latest manager and the team he selects tomorrow might get us 3 of the points that we desperately need in our bid to avoid relegation.

Quite honestly, Mr Kenwright, you are irrelevant and the sooner you realise that your time at Everton is over, the better. Your tenure as Chairman has been a series of major embarrassing disasters and you should have the decency to resign, and take your poor Graeme with you.

He fucking well knows his time is up, he's probably been briefed by Moshiri that new investors are imminent and he's out the door.

His ego won't allow people to think bad of him; he's looking for sympathy and a way back with the fans... he knows he's a pariah, as is the rest of the board.

Goodbye, Bill and your cronies, and thanks for fuck-all.

The CEO shouldn't have to have the Chairman fight her battles for her. Her record should speak for itself… and it does! It's indefensible!

Ingles – a Finance Director that has overseen us falling foul of P&S Rules should be immune from criticism?

They must all be sat round thinking they are doing a fabulous job, asking what are all the protests about??

Move on !!

When I wake up in a few hours, I hope this version of Scrooge was due to an undigested crumb of cheese…

If you think this is bad, Paul, what do you think will happen if we go down?

I notice a few fans on various sites are blaming the #AllTogetherNow group for writing the open letter to Bill in the first place, and given our precarious position in the table, I have some sympathy with that view.

However, the club and its communication team should have resisted Bill's insistence to use the official site as the platform for his reply, as the national media have already picked up on it and they will use it to sow the seeds of uncertainty in the next few days and weeks.

Will potential investors be put off by this noise? Will Bill be more able to retain his position if the club is relegated? Will Bill be able to get his own consortium together to take over if the club are relegated? Will Moshiri act on this utterly shameful situation?

Bill first, Everton second — or should that be any position lower than 12th???

I believe, unless we see an unbelievable result tomorrow, that Bill has just sealed Everton's Premier League fate…

I'm staggered. I've also read every line of every post and it's really clear that we are all on the same page here.

Some think it's a hoax; I can buy into that, it's so bad.
The word "Sharpy" makes me fucking cringe because it's him all over.

By the way, Bill, keep your health to yourself, it's not a good look bleating about one's own health. Let others do that and grow up.

Truly gobsmacked!!!

Best line is:

I think we all agree "I found you a Billionaire"

Chairman Bell-End Bill

His must be a simple world where simple things happen without any need to understand the reasons why those things happen and it matters not who are the catalysts for them happening.

Whatever else he may be, Chairman Bill uses the English language in an eloquent and articulate manner. This doesn't sound at all like him.

Can anyone verify it?

The unprofessionalism just continues. It's there in Technicolor, in results on the pitch and in this latest soap opera episode today. The stadium is a magnificent achievement, but most of us can only see a white elephant now. I can't even bring myself to watch the videos anymore.

I hope we survive. I hope Bill gets to bow out to a new investors board in summer. I hope he comes on the pitch at half-time in the game at first Bramley-Moore Dock with Moshiri and they both get a cheer like none before… but I don't believe it'll happen right now. If it's relegation and catastrophe, Bill and Farhad deserve the ire of every Evertonian for generations.

He deserves no legacy other than the utter contempt of Evertonians. The 'poorly old man' excuse is a scumbag's get-out-of-jail card.

"You should, as my mum used to say, wash your mouth out with carbolic soap, you fucking creep."

Bit harsh of your mum to call you a fucking creep! :)

Looks like it's genuine... Blue Bill's reply was issued via the official Everton site.

As Colonel Kurtz would say, "The Horror!"

By the way, 'Chairman Bill', I'm also not as well as I was and I've packed in work, some things are more important than others.

"You should, as my mum used to say, wash your mouth out with carbolic soap you fucking creep."

Colin, I'm sure your mum never really thought you were a fucking creep!

Hope the players don't read this debilitating garbage. It reminds me of Alex Murdaugh, the US lawyer who shot his wife and son in a pathetic attempt to gain sympathy from his creditors.

Wonder if he'll turn up at Palace …. That would really be the icing on the cake!

I can't imagine us going to Emirates tonight going two up?

Mind you, they are all coming to the end of the gravy train ride one way or another. The mixture of hubris and self-pity is nauseating.

What a fraud, hopefully this really desperate communication is a last pathetic rally. Just when you think he can't drag the club any lower… he does.

He will be the Chairman that got us relegated… but I hope not.

Yet again, some bullshit statement. Yet again, on the eve of a vital match. Yet again, Chairman Bill trying to pull the wool over us.

He tells us he doesn't run the club – so why the hell is he at the club?

He tells us of his CEO apparently amongst the best in the business, but I'm wondering does he know where we are in the table?

Does he know what's happening regarding certain financial investigations?

Does he know what we've won in the last few years – if not decades?

Can't hear you Bill. "The horror" oh my.

Attacked? When was this Bill? Had the police been informed? Did you catch the headlocker? I'm aghast. We're a laughing stock but most of all it's brought on by this charlatan and his cronies. Get out of Everton!

"The Chairman does not run the football club. We have a Chief Executive Officer who does that, as is true with most clubs. In the eyes of most of the football world, Denise is amongst the best of the best".

"For me, the horror of seeing Grant Ingles, our Chief Financial Officer, and Graeme Sharp being attacked is more than difficult to comprehend."

Probably the latter, lol!

No-one wishes ill health on the man but, at the risk of sounding callous, his health is of no consequence re the club's fortunes. If it is impacting on his duties, he needs to step away asap for his and the club's benefit.

The attempted deflection to other board members was truly dire. He is captain of the ship and the buck stops with him.

An honest reference to others would have been highlighting the disastrous impact of Moshiri flitting in and out as it suits. He would've won brownie points for saying it hasn't worked and he's looking to put it right.

But it can't happen of course because the rest of his verbiage told us through couched terms we're up shit creek without a paddle financially, leaving us with no option but to indulge the Iranian accountant.

Sorry, Bill, that was absolutely dreadful — possibly the grimmest horse's mouth missive we've seen.

Whatever next? World peace??

'Thanks for your concerns about my health' is very clearly a jibe.

More than anything, it just makes me think this is a guy who is suffering from poor judgement.

And we have a club that allows him that platform, despite the poor content.

Basket-case club.

Although I got it partly wrong with throwing the fans under the bus, he has thrown someone else under the bus; nailed on he would come out with an illness.

What a time to release it, on the eve of one of our most important games of the season.

Just go now, Bill.

I've said it for years – Kenwright's personality pervades every facet of EFC and pretty much dictates the philosophy of the club. He has influence over everyone there; dissenters are not tolerated.

It's why we're shite on and off the pitch, in every department. It will take years and years to clear his fucking dreadful stench from Everton but that's what is needed to restore this football club to what it once was. Clear them all out. Every last one of them.

It's just so sad that it's taken this long but for all the ignorant bastards that refused to see it for what it was – take a fucking bow. You were had.

The consensus was "we can't talk about health issues in the questions we put to the board." But apparently they can keep banging on about them as a way to avoid criticism.

You can't say you will be too old to Chairman at 70, then stick around years after that age and allege you have a chronic illness yet somehow can do the job(?) whilst implying the "chronic illness" prevents you from doing but exempts you from criticism.

But of course Paul Hewitt took the bait. For all we know, he may have mild arthritis which is a chronic illness. Sounds dramatic but isn't necessarily a big deal.

The chairman is ill. His health is undoubtedly hampering his role; the stress and day to day effort of running a football club will no doubt be causing him issues relating to recovery or treatment for the illness that he is unfortunately fighting.

Sorry but am I the only one to find this paragraph – sent out under the so-called #AllTogetherNow banner to represent the Everton fanbase – an absolutely disgusting and abhorrently presumptuous pile of shite?

What's also galling is there was absolutely no need to include such idiocy in the message. Where was the senior review? Where are the responsible Blues who should have put the headlock on this at source???

This is as bad as it gets, callous and shallow.

Piss poor timing and selfish, and the night before a massive game.

What next...

If we have so many fantastic hard-working people, then how come the net result is that we are the worst run club in England?

(Although Chelsea are trying their best to catch us up in the Incompetence Sweepstakes).

They should've risen above it though, as he's now gone all smarmy in his reply.

For fuck's sake, Walcott is playing for these. Was absolutely diabolical for us….why? All about mentality.

See Michael's post #1

Paul 54, are you serious or just winding us up?

Yes, missed that, could have been left out, a Godsend to Kenwright.

Oh ps: I do know 100% from personal experience the club totally monitors each and every comment, view and opinion. So keep your comments coming and tell them the truth of your thoughts. COYB

I'll worry about Kenwright when the season is over. For now, I'm more worried about the team and how crap it is.

“but…Grant and Sharpy?!?! On banners?!?!”

He is in denial regarding the running of the club, putting it squarely in the hands of Denise, making excuses and not attempting to explain the poor performance of the club financially. He is even threatening that things would get worse if the board went.

It is a deluded statement, by a guy who knows his time is up and on the eve of an important game without regard for the club.

Absolute rub.......bish.

This load of tripe that our Chairman Bill has penned is the direct result of the AltogetherNow letter which states that "The Chairman is ill". That, is what our Chairman Bill recognised was his way out of any or all the explanations, reasons and expectations that we had, that he would ever address the club's problems with any seriousness and handed him the opportunity he has so gladly grabbed with both hands and turned that AllTogetherNow letter on its head and used it as a stick to defend himself.

He deliberately cited the other members of the board in order to play down his own standing and responsibilities. He managed to throw his CEO under the bus, having released her momentarily from the headlock he himself has her firmly in.

The fact that this man has a health problem is undeniable – the problem is in his head – it is called ego. There is no way he is going to accept any criticism of his hideous record as Chairman of Everton Football Club.

When the time comes for his capitulation, he will have to be dragged screaming and kicking from the Chair at Everton. The man is in denial – he is ill.

As long-suffering fans, we are lumbered with a sick chairman who runs a sick football club.

He's charmed everyone for so long, it's a bit of a shock when he comes out spitting.

Who put out that nonsense?

That is why he responded. He spotted the weakness.

The man is insane but I'll leave to the shrinks on here to come up with the correct medical term.

It's the words of a man who can't see that he's past his sell by date.

Step aside before you lose every last drop of your dignity Bill.

Link

“I like you, Chairman Bill. Always have, always will”

She sums up perfectly Kenwright's contempt for all Evertonians with his continued tragic delusion that the desperate situation we find ourselves in, is any of his wrong doing, that's his legacy, A sad and pathetic liar.

Some big apologies are owed, I reckon, especially to the fans who saw through all his lies, deceit and general Machiavellianism and took all the abuse for trying to change things for the good of the club.

Paul the Esk, one in particular. Colin Fitzpatrick. The Blue Union. KEIOC. Many good people who have spent years trying to oust this fucking evil limpet from Everton Football Club.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice….

Fucking shame on you bastards.

I should be happy that a man who I absolutely detest is making an absolute fool of himself, but I'm actually depressed because this manipulative egotistical maniac, should have been booted out of Goodison, years ago.

The field day will come later, but for now it's all about Everton trying to get safe again🤞

I would be very suspicious of the content of that Tweet. I would like to know who wrote it.

Twice now he has put something out before a very important game.

If this illness has been going on for three years, then he should have stood down then, instead of clinging on for one last moment of limelight.

Funny when we were winning he was happy to have his face on the big screen, happy to tell us about the good times, happy to still even now, pull the wool over the last few remaining supporters of him.

A lot of us saw it a good few years ago, even decades.

What is frightening is the level of his self-delusion about where EFC is at.

As others have said, he is a narcissistic egotistical lying fraud….but enough of his good points

Just leave Mr Kenwright, and whoever gave him that spade better take it off him before he ends up in Christine Foster's living room.

A poisonous toad, what an insidious response from a cretin of a man who has supervised a whole era of mediocrity due to his own shortcomings
Sooner he fucks off the better so we don't have to continue listening to this hyperbole and bullshit.
The whole timing of this statement Massive games coming up and it's all about him and the board no mention of the fight required to stay in the league
Nor is there mention of the boards failure to support the last two managers by actually attending a game

Asking for apologies on Toffeweb...you'll be threatening to tell your Mammy next!

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Trust Liar Bill at your own peril.

The problem with the illness reference in my mind is that it's deferential, not accusational.

If I was addressing it, I'd put it like if you can't show up to games or address criticism because you're selectively “sick” then you're a selfish prick and need to step down.

They tried to be polite probably worrying about people like Paul defending “poor sick Bill.” That's the mistake.

You are clearly doing a shit job Bill. If it's because you're useless then leave. If it's cause your “sick” then leave. Either way, you need to go.

However, it's actually real. He wrote it, he believes it and he made it public. He's delusional. completely gone Lady Gaga.

Bill, for your own sanity and health, step aside please!!!!!! Jenny, for fuck's sake, get a grip of him.

Like big Dunc, he was our savior when we needed one.

Yes, he should have left when Moshiri came on board.
Yes, he's made numerous mistakes.
Yes, he is in no fit state to run the club.
Yes, he's way out of touch with the fans.
Yes, the Board he has assembled are a joke.

But he's a stubborn old mule and won't go without a fight.

Stop fighting him, for the interests of the club, And he will go!

Anyone familiar with John Cooper Clarke's poetry will know immediately the one selected for this occasion.

When I first read that, I thought the Everton website must have been hacked.

What a strange rambling. I am assuming the club sanctioned that?

The CEO who is apparently running one of England's most famous and biggest clubs that is failing is amongst the best of the best? Only she doesn't run the club. She runs the charity side, which I am actually fine with. But get someone in to run the football side.

The last 3 years and last season in particular have been challenging? Try the last 36 since we won our 9th League title. Still waiting for the 10th, our 6th FA Cup and finally to land the League Cup. And then Europe.

Expectation. You are not beating it out of me.

There is a cynical and snide dig at the supporters again. One of whom he claims to be. It ends up being self-appreciating about himself.

We are not the criminals in this story or staged message. We dedicate our lives, time and money to following a team and club that we care passionately about. That we have done since we can remember and will do until we can't breathe anymore.

If you understand, you don't need an explanation. How dare anyone criticise those supporters. Especially if you call yourself a supporter.

Cradle to grave.

Unlike many, I will acknowledge that he stepped in when no one would touch us with a Mersey barge pole. But as most know, he should have stepped down years ago. History now, but Moshiri should have swept out the old and brought in the new.

If he as big a supporter as he claims, he would have done. If you want a supporter to run the club, you could employ me and countless others.

I won't read that again. I still think the club website has been hacked.

On health, I would never wish ill health on any person. I hope Bill is well and looks after himself.

Selhurst Park. All that matters today is Selhurst Park.

I reside on the West Coast of the U.S these days. And miss the Old Lady greatly. But will be up at 7am to watch with passion.

Thank you for all you, and the rest of the travelling blues, do!

COYB. UTFT.

Unfortunately, his cult of personality stretches to 5 people - Grant, Sharpy, DBB, that dickhead Darren who does interviews and, of course, the sainted Chairman Bill himself.

If he needs a week off, then take it. Indeed take as long as you need.

The only thing that amazes me is how long it took most of you to realise what an awful man he is. He's a narcissist and a sociopath who refuses to read the room. Funny how he always accentuates his health when he's on the run.

The day he leaves will be one of the greatest days in the history of the club. He's not going anywhere soon until the grim reaper claims him.

Good old "Sharpie" on a banner, after all he did for the club back in the glory days.

So Bill, why not mention that the billionaire you found has got no money left? Why not mention the fact that we failed to buy a striker of note over God knows how many windows? And why not mention that we are paying the board members a hefty wedge for their wonderful input?

Finally, Bill, any explanation as to why the Premier League are referring us to a special investigation?

The man is feeling sorry for himself. He has been surrounded by his lackeys for so long that the fans' genuine concerns have hit him for six. He really can't believe that, after all of his years of spin, the majority of supporters are unhappy with the results of his efforts.

Out of touch and delusional. Lots of EFC fans are ill, Bill, but you have made us more poorly – the stress of supporting us over the last 27 years has been killing us, and the last two seasons see Everton on life-support.

You have been silent for months and, on the eve of a crucial game, you put this out. Hardly a rallying call for us all to get behind the team.

You should be ensuring us that we will survive and we will get new investment, and that the new stadium will be owned by the club, and will open on time. And that we will not be down in the relegation places next season.

As soon as I saw " Dear AllTogetherNow..." I realised I was to be mistaken. By the end of the diatribe, I had cringed, laughed and finally despaired.

Kenwright will be gone within a few months or even weeks but quite what it will take to finally dislodge the limpet, I don't know.

4 points minimum from the next two games will have us all feeling better.

Stay Strong, You Blues.

I sign off with my customary salutation:

Fuck Off, Kenwright.

No-one representing everyone ever really represents anyone.

But to be fair, at least they're doing something.

What is happening here is he is flailing and desperate to try every trick in the book to hang on . He knows full well that the club can have an upswing in form.

His strategy is to hang on long enough to see us avoid relegation, then with a couple of new forwards next year have a better mid table season.

Make no mistake, he fully intends to stay on to open the BMD stadium which he will see as his own legacy.

It's a nightmare scenario for Everton that we have such a deluded narcissist at the very top. After all these failed decades, where we have been left way behind even many smaller clubs, and led to the precipice of existential threat , he still believes he is an irreplaceable asset.

Supporters who dare to criticise his tenure are looked upon as irrelevant, bovine imbeciles and will always fall into line after a few half decent results.

The fact is the club will not, and can not, move forward until he is gone.

"Dear fellow Blues,

You and my illness have left me no choice but to step aside. I feel that the efforts among a small minority of so-called supporters to oust me have had a negative impact on my beloved club and have distracted the team leading to relegation."

Or something like that. Chilling.

Your ego, your willingness of not wanting to let go has put our great football club to one of their lowest depths of our history.

I can not sum it up any better than Pete Wylie, so will leave the rest to Pete:

Here in my pocket,
I've got the Story of the Blues,
Try to believe me,
Cos' it could be front page news.

I said I live with it like it hasn't happened yet,
I keep thinking of everyone,
How I'm the one, the one they're trying to get,
To tell... The Story of the Blues.

First, they take your pride,
Turn it all inside,
And then you realise,
You've got nothing left to lose.

So you try to stop,
Try to get back up,
And then you realise,
You're telling the Story of the Blues.

Felling browbeaten,
Day after day,
I think it's over,
But I just can't get away.

You said forget it,
Well don't jump the gun,
You're laughing this time,
Next time you might be the one,
To tell The Story of the Blues.

First, they take your pride,
Turn It all inside,
And then you realise,
You've got nothing left to lose.

So you try to stop,
Try to get back up,
And then you realise,
You're telling the Story of the Blues.

So you try to stop,
Try to get back up,
And then you realise,
You're telling the Story of the Blues.

What they gonna say about me,
When they tell the Story of the Blues.

If you want to know how the supporters are feeling, Bill, I suggest you give Wah!'s Story of the Blues a blast.

If you want to do something, get rid of that shitty version of Grand Old Team, and give this a blast out instead.

I play that song regularly. I'll play it today.

I also believe the communications department at Everton have stopped protecting him, and are now putting out word for word the utter rubbish this guy has been preaching for years.

Keep talking Bill, keep talking.

He has been the dreadful for this club, and some still claim he rescued us! The man is a narcissistic parasite.

It's either Moshiri giving Bill the rope to hang himself or Bills just done it without running it past Moshiri.

If he was angry about the references to his poor heath, which in fairness come across as a bit unprofessional & ill judged.
A short rebuttal and reassuring message that one is fit enough to do the job would surely have been more fitting for a Chairman.
Not this sorry, self-absorbed, anger filled statement.

He won't go without a fight you say, the coward won't even go to see the club he's ruined, or maybe deep down he knows that and his conscience is bothering him, no that can't be the case he loves himself too much to even have a conscience.

Seems like that's the point in releasing a statement, make them fight amongst each other.

Meanwhile the press are highly selective in the paragraphs they're reporting making bill look like a put upon grandad who's just doing his best and is ill.

Kenwright should have went a long time ago but he's still here, so I don't understand what you are saying mate.

I have just read the opening lines to something attributed to this mess on the echo website, and agree that Kenwright's appalling statement just leaves a lot more questions, than it does answers.

He's a sickening man to me, but hopefully a new batch of questions will be put forward to Bill Kenwright, and hopefully he has got the respect to answer them truthfully.

No fighting, just honest questions that need answering, but because he couldn't do this without looking foolish, I think it's Bill Kenwright himself, who is the one who is looking for a fight?

He's looking RIDICULOUS anyway, but after the way he's ran Everton football club into the ground over many, many years, then we are best to stop fighting him? Very hard to fathom that Rob.

The only “ Good Time” we'll see is when he goes, the quicker the better!!

I liked it to Scott@151, because the man is simply hanging himself, and although I still thought it was self serving meaningless drivel, take no notice of Paul, because you can write what you want on this website, as long as it's okay with Lyndon & Michael!

Imagine being in an interview room and saying what Bill Kenwright had just said? He's left himself wide open to a lot more questions that should now be asked. Questions that he couldn't answer honestly (imo).

But I think the best way is to ignore him and the owner and the board, and hope that a new owner arrives but in truth being where we are in the league I don't think it will happen until our fate is decided. Its quite obvious the chairman isn't prepared to do the right thing and step down, and Moshiri isn't prepared to replace any of our current board.

If he is genuinely ill now I'm sorry, but in the past he has been like the boy who cried wolf, claiming or his friends claiming his illness always when Everton's team has been in a bad way.

The entire letter is an attempt to ‘blow us all off' without actually addressing any concerns.

He's basically said ‘it's nothing to do with me, guv'.

Then gone on to say any fears are unfounded. We've got one of the best CEO's in the cosmos, she's done a cracking job considering we've had covid, the war in Ukraine and the Prince Harry documentary. We all work tirelessly. Farhad the board and your chairman are on it. Despite our apparent failures we're actually succeeding in everything we do.

You fans though, you're the ones letting the side down. Your chairman being taken to the Dune Sea and cast into the Pit of Carkoon, the nesting place of the all-powerful Sarlaac, is something that, although it hurts, I have to get used to but….Grant and Sharpy?!?! Chucked into the Pit of Carkoon?!?!

Your Chairman being told “Come. It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man” is something that, although it hurts, I have to get used to but…Grant and Sharpy?!?! Wailing inside the Wicker Man?!?!

Imagine if we weren't there? What about Frank? Super Frank, who we had to sack because our results were shite? Who would he have got a hug and a snot-smeared shoulder off, after results were also shite last season and we stayed up by the skin of our teeth, if I wasn't there to do the honours? What about Richie? Remember him?

Other clubs wouldn't shit themselves if we weren't around.

It's not nice. You're not nice. We're nice and I'm not a well man. I'm also not a narcissist.

Now where's a good, recent photo I can use on here. No, not that one. Not that one. Not that one. Ah, yeah, that one there, from twenty years ago. Were we shite back then I ask?!?!

Oh, we were?

He's been a lying bastard from day one and I'm amazed people are only accepting it now

Had we not been called delusional and Unevertonian like during DK and Blue Union days maybe we wouldn't be in this position now

It should be about his track record!!

That's bad enough. The evidence is there for all to see. I don't think it's necessary and just gives him an angle to peddle to the press, who will and are creating a narrative around an old man battling an illness, and not an old man with a terrible track record as Chairman.

He was demonstably incompetent long before that started and should have walked after the King's Dock debacle.

This pathetic and petulant outpouring just confirms what many of us have known for 20 years.

Incredible levels of petty shithousery. I'd be lapping this up if it was the chairman of another club.

Anyway, as open letters seem to be the way to go, can I write one to CB?

Dear Chairman Bill,
Now that you are in the mood, would you mind replying to my letter dated January 18th, referring to the alleged 'headlock' incident? In that letter, I asked you to report the incident to police so that it could be properly investigated, the offender identified and the rest of the Everton fanbase exonerated.
I won't reprint the whole letter just the last paragraph;

Nobody wants fans who behave like this at our club. You have a duty to report and assist police in investigating so that the offenders no longer attend matches at Goodison Park. It is incomprehensible that you would choose not to report potential crimes, especially involving actual or threatened violence.

As a season ticket holder I am appalled that you would do nothing. The only conclusion I, and thousands of other fans, can draw if you fail to report, is that these ‘incidents' did not actually take place.

I look forward to a reply from you but doubt if I will get one.

I didn't get one. Anyway, Chairman Bill is actually irrelevant. As others have said, he'll be gone soon enough. It's the players who matter now. They probably couldn't care less about him or his silly letter.
Come on guys, find something from deep inside today. We need it. You can do it.

When you act dishonestly you are initiating problems, and a domino structure of complications, which will eventually run out of control.

Sounds about right!

The inference being none of us do actually know. but we all know it must be 100s of times harder if what you are trying to market becomes increasingly tarnished by those failing to run it competently.

The truth is she has to be to deal with what every other Premier League club copes with in a hugely competitive environment in addition to the problems that the world has thrown at us over the last three years and, closer to home, in the last year or so.

That's no reasonable argument. Everyone in the world has had to deal with the ‘problems that the world has thrown at us over the last three years' and the ones ‘closer to home' are of the board's own making, aren't they?

He doesn't even present what he obviously believes is flawed thinking correctly:

Are they thinking “the Everton Board has gone… it's going to be easier for us now!!!

Eh??? That's not what we think they are thinking, that's what Kenwright keeps telling us that is what they would think.

This shambolic missive certainly doesn't convince me the club is being run by those best suited to that weighty responsibility.

Moshiri, Kenwright and the rest will be here until the stadium is built. After that, they will be out as fast as they can say Taxi. Ranting about Kenwright and the board will make no difference, it is all sound and fury signifying — absolutely nothing.

What gives you the right to tell us what we can and can't post on here? Another happy clapping keyboard warrior, probably in Kenwright's pay?

Do you think that Chairman Bill's letter has helped or hindered the chance of Everton Football Club getting new investors involved?

I think it has harmed it, and therefore is far more damaging to the future of the club than any ranting on here.

I think what makes his angle so compelling is the way he emotes. It's that line he puts over that he's a sentimental fool who can't help indulging his passion, and we all fell for it.

Meanwhile, he's bought the club with other people's money and sold it on for tens of millions. A master manipulator.

We are now though at the most interesting phase, the charm is wearing off, and it is suddenly shocking to see the real Bill, all defensive sarcasm, and hard-nosed refusal to budge an inch.

Anyway it is classed as chronic, can be quite debilitating but easily manageable with medication and not life threatening.

Since the Soton game when the board inflamed the situation with their statements to the press, protests have been peaceful before the match. As Dyche requested, fans have got behind the team during the game.

The statement this week from Chairman Bill inflamed the situation again before a massive away game. His purpose is mystifying, other than to satisfy his own bruised ego. Overall, fans' response to the latest aggression has been remarkably rationale. Proof perhaps that is influence is finally on the wane.

As for calling your fellow fans “swivel eyed loons”, that is outrageous. Similar to some posters who called their own fans ‘feral dogs' until Merseyside Police came out with s statement debunking the claims made as without basis.

I would respectfully suggest that you go and have a lie down.

Kenwright has come out all antagonistic, and it genuinely wouldn't surprise me if a part of him actually didn't care if Everton are relegated, such is the way he feels has been treated by people he has been kidding for years.

This is what happens when lying, self centered, egotistical maniacs, finally get found out because their truth, is always different from reality.

His legacy is in tatters, but so is are football club, unfortunately. One and one makes two, and Bill Kenwright has helped to fuck both things up. Out of the two fuck ups, I wonder which one is hurting William the most?

The only petulance on show is that of the serial liar, long found out now resorting to shouting from his bunker!

Protest is a symptom, in this case totally justified and nowhere close to the main cause of concern here.

What we are witnessing now has been years in the making and has been allowed to happen partly because some people are more concerned about protesters/protesting than they are about the root causes. The endless list of failures and lies swept under the carpet after each debacle unwraps itself unceremoniously. This club has possibly smashed through the last set of buffers already....

We, the fan base will never change that. He is who he is. The truth is there for us all to see but he will never accept that. His ego will never allow it.

His letter confirms it. The ranting of a cornered, exposed, self-centred narcissist. He knows it.

Having said all of that, I believe the problems at Everton go much deeper than the professionalism of the current Board. In my view, the problems date back to the early '70s when, in my mind, Everton began showing a readiness to sell, at the drop of a hat, their best players for profit.

For me, the sale of Alan Ball was the first sign and, soon after that, I recall walking past Goodison and noting that it said ‘Everton Football Club Company Ltd'. It was the first time that I was struck, as a teenager, by Everton being a business, geared towards making money, with ‘football glory' not being the very reason for it all existing. At that point, after the sale of Ball, the shine was taken off my football world, and it has never returned.

Unfortunately, EFC has persisted in this approach of selling our best players at the drop of a hat, even with the presence of a billionaire in Moshiri. More money has come in, but the approach of EFC hasn't changed. And that, in my mind, is the problem. Kenwright's tenure has served to continue this problem, and Moshiri's presence hasn't stopped it.

The problem has contributed massively to the demise in standards of EFC, and particularly the current financial position brought about by selling top quality players and replacing them with quantity, with average or mediocre ones.

I'm not against the current Board resigning because of unprofessionalism but, at the same time, I have no confidence that the situation will improve unless the basic approach at Everton is changed.

He is self serving egotistical narcissistic deluded fool. He has food lots but his time is up at LAST...

Compared to the non-stop joy we're experiencing now and through most of his Chairmanship, presumably?

Can I have some of whatever you're taking, Alan?

The implication that any football club anywhere in the world would employ our CEO at close to a million a year would be laughable if it wasn't so serious. The lack of self-awareness here is truly mind boggling. Reminds me a bit of Prince Harry…

6 years after Moshiri brought investment to the club, we're on the brink of relegation and in financial peril.

I've just watched Newcastle savage Spurs and all but secure their place in the Champions League, a little over a year after their take over.

If Bill thinks the board are doing a great job, he's deluded.

The sale of Chelsea was rushed through with the approval of the FA. Shame they seek to punish us rather than help us get a proper owner.