Everton Questionnaire

Hey man, just done the Qs - best of luck to you.

I was in your shoes 10 years ago (LJMU perchance?), and I think I may even have asked people to do a dissertation questionnaire on here as well.

Time flies

Sorted, good luck and get your degree.🍀👍🏼

Done. Good luck mate.

Submitted. Best of luck.

Done.

Done

Done! Good luck with it.

Yes, good luck, Luke!

Actually, the question: What aspect of football do you dislike most?

My answer isn't up there but it would be agents.

All completed for you Luke.

Good luck with the dissertation.

Could I please ask which Software/site you used for the Questionnaire? Back in the day I used to use Survey MOnkey, but this is much better/cleaner.

Cheers and good wishes

All done. Do we get a copy of the finished dissertation? 😜

Done,
Good luck Luke.

I agree with David Pearl about agents and the obscene amount of money they make.

Done. Good Luck.
I agree with the agents comment too. I would also add VAR as a serious dislike (at least in its present form)

Done

Done

Done, good luck with the dissertation

Glad to help. All the best Luke.

Done

Done and good luck with your project. Would love to see a summary of your findings and, if you submit it to the club, what their response is.

A couple things, with "No harm, No foul" in mind:

Maybe double-check spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

When the survey is completed and submitted, one can click back in and take the survey again. Don't know if that's your intention.

Looks interesting. Perhaps when it's done and dusted and you get your grade, you can send it to Lyndon to post here.

Best of luck.

Done

Hope that helps you, Luke, although a few questions merited more than one answer, ie, what are you dissatisfied with in the modern game, I feel there could have been several answers in that one. Transfer Fees, Players (Immoral) Wages, the influence of Sky and Broadcasting Companies etc.

I did my dissertation 20 years ago on football shirt sponsorship using us & One2one as a case study. To give them credit, the club allowed me to conduct my questionnaire within the club shop for about a week and gave me information on sponsorship deals.

I was doing an internship at the time with Leyton Orient, working as their marketing person. Embarrassingly, there wasn't a huge difference between the two operations.

Hi Everyone,

I am overwhelmed with the response that I have been given on this questionnaire, as I am currently looking at 625 responses from fellow blues and reds.

A few questions that have come up in the comments, I would love to potentially publish my dissertation on this website if that is able to do so and if the grade I get is to a good standard.

The avenue of agents that David Pearl and Jay Harris have picked up on is a really good one which I have missed out on, I agree the fees that agents receive are extortionate and are a detriment to the world of football nowadays. Likewise with the recent introduction of VAR as suggested by Paul Hughes.

Then the avenue to contact the clubs to locate myself in the club shops could be a real positive opportunity to receive more responses, which I would be very interested in doing but wouldn't know who to contact.

Finally Simon Harrison, I have used Google Forms for the construction of the questionnaire which has allowed me to personalise and export all of the data once the study is completed.

But thank you all again for participating in the questionnaire, it is so greatly appreciated.

Up the toffees.

Good luck with this Luke and with your studies. I would never buy any merchandise which promoted a gambling company. I buy Everton merchandise but not with SportPesa attached. We have EitC working on Mental Health and the club supporting Gambling!

Luke, that's a great response rate! Well done.

"I would love to potentially publish my dissertation on this website if that is able to do so and if the grade I get is to a good standard".

That sounds good - publish and be damned! And if you want somebody to read your draft, there might be a few on here willing to do that - I come cheap, as in free!

Hi Luke, good look with your dissertation.

Have just completed survey.
Would just like to add, I felt, as with most surveys, I was being forced into a simplistic answer that I didn't really feel because there were no other options.
Just one example; when the answer is positive or negative, I felt I wanted to say, there are examples of both.

As a generalisation, like most people, I feel there are terrible consequences of commercialisation. However, the survey seemed to point the finger at the club. But the club have little choice if they want to survive. It's the bigger picture that forces their commercialised direction.

Hope you don't take this as criticism. Just trying to put forward a viewpoint that may help.
All the best with your studies

Luke, you might know this already but it's always a good idea at the end of the dissertation to critically assess your methods - so be honest about the sort of limitations that Julie points to. Doing that isn't a weakness but will strengthen your dissertation.

From 12,000 miles, I found most questions did not apply to me. Perhaps a skip button would have saved my time and reduced a false summation of answers.

Cheers anyway.

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The "most disliked in football" question/answer Players Wages would indicate the pathway to the blood-sucking leeches that agents most certainly are.

I enjoyed completing the questionnaire.
I agree with an earlier comment (21) about multiple choice answers.
I would also have liked to see a question regarding where you live now in addition to where you are from. I have lived in Vienna for almost 15 years, which is the reason that I do not attend many games. That option was not provided in the question about attendance, so I had to answer 'Other Arrangements'.
Pleased to note the good number of responses.

Good luck Luke. I think asking whether we are a season ticket holder would have been useful. With having a season ticket I don't really think about individual match ticket prices only the overall cost over a season., which the club has held for a few seasons now.

All done, Luke; top of the list has to be football agents and changing games to suit the armchair fan.

One not on there for me is poor allocation of tickets for away supporters.

Hi Everyone,

Thankyou for much for your feedback, comments and responses with the questionnaire and with regards to my study.

I have now completed my search for responses as I have now received 1,032 responses which is rather overwhelming.

I can always rely on the Everton family for support and I shall keep you all updated with my findings.

COYB