Season 2011-12 Fan Articles
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
By Andrew Earlam :: 02/08/2011
43 Comments (»Last)
CHAIRMANBill Kenwright CBE
Elected to board 23 October 1989
Chairman June 2004-present
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN
Jon Woods
Elected to the board 2 March 2000
DIRECTORS
Robert Earl
Elected to the board 18 July 2007
Sir Philip Carter CBE
Chairman August 1978-1991, November 1998-June 2004
Elected to the board August 2008
The Elstone Prophecy as set out in his Book Of Revelations (otherwise known as his Proof Of Evidence to the Public Inquiry into Desperation Kirkby):
12.1 Perhaps one of the most important issues to address is the implications for the Club if the project fails.Heard nothing from any of the horsemen (or St Suntan) since that indicates there is any hope of salvation. Isn't it about time they told us what they hope to do to stem the erosion of a pre-eminent football asset dating back to 1878.12.2 Given the deficiencies of Goodison Park, the Club would have no choice but to continue its search for an alternative new stadium site. However, given the comprehensive search taken over the last 10 years prior to Kirkby, finding a suitable site is very unlikely in the short to medium term if at all.
12.3 Whilst the search would continue, we would continue to invest in Goodison Park as best we could. Meaningful redevelopment of Goodison would not be possible and therefore at best any ?improvements? could enable the Club to stand still.
12.4 We would almost certainly fall further behind our rivals and indeed face the risk of a real significant decrease in some of our key revenue streams, increasing the pressure on the Club?s ability to sustain a competitive level of player expenditure (wages and transfers). On this basis the Club would find it increasingly difficult to compete with its Premier League rivals in terms of attracting, retaining and developing the best players.
12.5 It follows that, if this project fails, the Club?s on-pitch performance is therefore highly unlikely to remain at the current levels and indeed risks deteriorating significantly. If consent is not granted and this unique opportunity is missed, the Club?s ability to improve facilities, generate additional revenues and secure long-term success will be severely impaired, leading to the erosion of a pre-eminent football asset dating back to 1878.
Are we living through The End Of Days described in the holy book of Wikipedia as the end time?
The End Times, or end of days is a time period described in the eschatological writings in the three Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and in doomsday scenarios in various other non-Abrahamic religions. In Christianity, the End Times are often depicted as a time of tribulation that precedes the Second Coming of the Christian "saviour" or a "hoped-for deliverer".Remember, we are God's Chosen People ? Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Beelzebub (Kenwright) Out!!!
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2 Posted 02/08/2011 at 14:29:35
Andrew's point, made in a different style but essentially the same point - is that this club is on a downward spiral and the Directors know it, and yet they haven't got any strategy for arresting that decline.
Andrew's right. So yawn away. We might be comfortably mid table this season, avoid a relegation scrap next season, but surely unless this Board goes soon, we have got big-time problems heading our way.
You may find that yawn-inducing, I find it pretty scary.
3 Posted 02/08/2011 at 14:37:39
4 Posted 02/08/2011 at 14:46:31
And how about the fans???
Last season Everton fans contributed over £23m towards the club's total turnover, some 29% of the total income, through tickets, catering and merchandise sales, and will do so year after year, season after season. The combined personal investment by the board, the one-off payment when purchasing their shareholdings, money that never went into the club, was significantly less; yet these individuals are the ones running the club, and they run it in a manner that offers little to its core business activity, operating as a competitive Premier League football club; yet, when the club is sold, they expect to obtain vast profits on these personal investments. Is it right that they know what is going on when those that contribute most don?t?
http://www.keioc.net/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=345&cntnt01returnid=15
1. Who besides Earl is behind BCR Sports?
2. What do the Other Operational Costs figures consist of?
There is no proof of wrongdoing but surely both being shrouded in mystery are greenhouse conditions for just that...
Everton fans have a right be shown where the last £23,000,000 went before pumping in another £23,000,000.
Everton fans deserve to be told if Moyes will ever be given a transfer kitty again.
5 Posted 02/08/2011 at 15:37:45
6 Posted 02/08/2011 at 16:21:50
On the matter in hand, this is why the nobs must go - they're simply not up to it.
It's not personal it's just fact, if they're so inept is it any wonder they can't find a buyer (chortles - "the very thought").
7 Posted 02/08/2011 at 16:35:11
The deadline for the lease signing for their new ground expires in September and is governed by strict planning rules.
But what the hell! ? that doesn't stop them. It seems the same group that got rid of Hicks and Gillette are organising a protest group to put pressure on the council to extend the deadline as LFC should be treated as a special case.
I fucking hate those Kopite bastards. They sure know how to get what they want...
8 Posted 02/08/2011 at 16:46:57
I could make an educated guess about what you do or who you are and I'm sure I'll be nearer the mark with mine than you are with yours, but that's not my style, so I'll leave it at that.
9 Posted 02/08/2011 at 17:16:49
Oh!
10 Posted 02/08/2011 at 17:10:42
You're BORED... well, why don't you go and get bored looking for transfer news on the Everton FC Website? because people on here are bored/ fed up/ PISSED OFF with the shite that comes from Billy n THE MUPPETS!! When they do show/speak!! Where are they now!?? SILENCE IS DEAFENING! Probably hiding in London!! OR doing DOROTHY ON TV!! The quicker the liar is gone, the better for me!!
Woods ? who /what is he there for??
Earl ? there in name and well???
Carter ? part of the furniture!!!
Elstone ? great PR MAN!! Talks shite!
And the ruler, Blue Billy Liar ? "It's my toy!"
Thats the board of OUR BELOVED CLUB!! WHAT DO THEY DO? WHAT AERE THEY DOING FOR THIS CLUB!!??
ps: Great article, Andrew!
12 Posted 02/08/2011 at 18:10:25
All this `Private Jones`crap-`we`re doomed,we`re doomed`will only hasten the time when it comes true.
If Bill walked now,we wouldn`t even be able to start the season as the banks would pull the plug immediately.
13 Posted 02/08/2011 at 18:24:12
"we`ve yet to hear of anybody seriously interested in Everton FC."
Question : How do you know?
Answer: Because Bill said.
There's the problem mate - I don't believe him - and he's only got himself to blame.
"Tellin's not sellin'" it's beyond blind faith now.
14 Posted 02/08/2011 at 18:35:18
15 Posted 02/08/2011 at 19:28:22
16 Posted 02/08/2011 at 19:47:07
Maybe the fact that no one has come out and said something along the lines of "I enquired but Bill's asking price was too high" or "I asked but was told that the club wasn't for sale" is the reason for Doddy's quote.
It's not like Bill hasn't said publically that the club's for sale.
17 Posted 02/08/2011 at 21:13:56
Hope they enjoy playing in lower divisons
18 Posted 02/08/2011 at 22:24:52
19 Posted 02/08/2011 at 22:36:56
The place is being run like a tuck shop, and no amount of deflection will change that.
20 Posted 02/08/2011 at 22:40:41
As you say, who has come out and said ? or even, in this day and age where things don't remain secrets from the media for long, when has a journalist asserted that someone said ? "I talked to Kenwright about buying or investing in Everton, but he said the amount of shares on offer were limited to that which would not make me the majority shareholder"?
21 Posted 02/08/2011 at 22:59:01
Granted that was a couple of years ago, but it was after Kenwright had said he was looking for investment 24/7, etc.
22 Posted 02/08/2011 at 22:54:59
'We are talking to three parties at the moment but we had talks with people last year and when it came down to it they didn?t have the money.?
We are still waiting to hear how these talks are progressing.
The silence is deafening!
23 Posted 03/08/2011 at 00:14:04
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7HQFLkxr2g
Why the hell should anyone believe a word that comes out of his mouth.
24 Posted 03/08/2011 at 08:08:20
"We`ve yet to hear".
Indeed we have.
It's really odd to me how Kenwright's 'support' of Everton is enough for some to cast aside the logic they would use to judge everyone NOT connected to Everton.
I believe if he had nothing to do with us or football and was just some business feller or politician who had been caught in loads of lies, our view (ALL of us) would be 'you slippery fucking lying twat!'.
Yet he waxes poetic about the Boys Pen, appears on telly/radio a few of times a year giving it 'I love this club' and for some, that's enough.
"Yeah alright he's made a few mistakes like..."
I can't say this is a fact, but I believe (TOTALLY) that if he was a politician, instead of anything to do with Everton, he'd be viewed in the same light as the shiftiest, most bullshittingest, untrustworthy expenses-fiddling fucker out there.
25 Posted 03/08/2011 at 09:51:08
26 Posted 03/08/2011 at 10:46:02
BK isn't the club ? it's shameful he has ever been involved given his decade-plus of failures ? but don't think for a minute if he disappeared that, besides dancing in the streets, anything would happen to the club... like banks knocking on the door.
27 Posted 03/08/2011 at 14:42:56
http://www.kenwright.com/index.php?id=936
If it's our very own Kenwright who owns this could he have come up with a better title?
It at least explains what he actually does during the day.
28 Posted 03/08/2011 at 14:56:24
His next title should be "Everton, 25 hours a day, 8 days a week".
29 Posted 03/08/2011 at 16:26:08
30 Posted 03/08/2011 at 17:00:01
31 Posted 03/08/2011 at 20:30:35
Well, it's quite simple - football clubs DO NOT make money. End of story.
32 Posted 04/08/2011 at 08:26:12
Luvvie: "Jen, can you think of anyone who's be good in this lead role?"
She who must be obeyed (when suggesting Everton managers): "Erm, yes my little spoofer, how about....ME!"
Luvvie: "Don't be fucking daf...oh I mean YES - BRILLIANT!"
33 Posted 04/08/2011 at 11:58:22
34 Posted 04/08/2011 at 14:09:31
Those bricks are like a new signing!
35 Posted 04/08/2011 at 14:18:42
Well done 'Mr Original'. Someone else cracked that one on a different thread yesterday.
(This is how Jimmy Tarbuck got started.)
36 Posted 04/08/2011 at 22:27:16
37 Posted 05/08/2011 at 07:50:25
comment by CharredCanard (U4389)
posted 20 hours ago
"My vote = Neither"
Absolutely. Nasty habit KEIOC have of using spin to get predictable answers to loaded questions. No-one with reasonable understanding of the goings on at the club would vote that the board were to be trusted. Running the poll again with a third 'Neither' option might be more instructive....but that wouldn't give the vindication that the poll was intended to provide!.
LETS EXAMINE THIS SUPPOSEDLY LOADED QUESTION AGAIN.
Do you trust the current owner(s) of Everton FC?
(85%, 578 Votes) NO
(15%, 100 Votes) YES
RIGHT SO AFTER SAYING AND I QUOTE
"No-one with reasonable understanding of the goings on at the club would vote that the board were to be trusted"
YOU SAY YOU'D VOTE NEITHER AND SAY THERE SHOULD BE A THIRD CHOICE.I THINK YOU ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED.DO YOU WORK FOR THE CLUB ???
38 Posted 05/08/2011 at 07:56:42
39 Posted 05/08/2011 at 09:03:12
I never had you down as an Andrew Crispy, always imagined your name would be something like Eric or Bob, anyway, I read this article on 606 yonks ago, please don't tell me you're starting your campaign of posting about three negative articles per day on here are you? You need to join the back of the queue mate!
40 Posted 05/08/2011 at 12:17:33
41 Posted 05/08/2011 at 17:10:52
42 Posted 05/08/2011 at 17:14:52
He's also the executive producer of the theatre royal in Windsor {basically he pulls the purse strings for the venue} and hasn't spent much on that place for about ten years either.
43 Posted 07/08/2011 at 01:08:35
Alias Smith and Jones me thinks.
44 Posted 07/08/2011 at 12:34:16
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1 Posted 02/08/2011 at 14:01:46