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Summer Loving
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As the fixtures for the new season will be announced tomorrow and every Premier League club (Everton apart) seemingly raising the interest of speculators, it is a weird sort of close season. Why is this?
Is it due to the fall out of the Tevez affair? Is it due to the ongoing Lord Steven's report into dodgy transfers? Matters for Everton have rarely if ever been so important, yet public utterances from important members of the club are few and far between. MPs have raised questions in Parliament, fans for and against moving have aired their views, yet the club have hidden behind the cloak of 'exclusivity' for so long now I wonder if they will make public their views any time soon. Maybe we will have to wait until the end of 2008 so as not to upset the City's capital of culture celebrations, maybe until 2012 to ensure the Olympics aren't besmirched.
Most of us understand that when you have little money in your pocket it is not polite to make demands on those who you have asked to help you in difficult times. However, it is important that when you are responsible for things that effect other people's lives, you owe it to those people to provide as much information as is possible in order to allay their fears, even if it means dashing their hopes.
I also notice the silence of those other great Evertonians, namely the Granchesters. How is it possible for a family who have long associations with Everton to remain so quiet on the controversial proposal to leave Goodison and perhaps the City?
As an ordinary supporter you start to believe that some extremely important people know exactly what is going to happen and for reasons best known to themselves remain tight-lipped. No doubt by the end of August, following a flurry of transfer activity, we will all be concentrating on matters on the pitch. Ground moves, takeovers and transfers can all take a back seat until next summer ? a summer where our minds will be concentrating on Euro 2008 and the 800th birthday of the City of Liverpool. See ? there will be so much going on next summer, it is good for us to spend this one quietly.
John Partick McFarlane, Posted 13/06/2007 at 19:09:58
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1 Posted 13/06/2007 at 21:47:09
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i presume that you are suggesting next summer may be a time to "bury some bad news" as in 9/11, and jo whoever, really, how could you be so cynical!!