Bill Kenwright

[chicoazul]

You "hope Kenwright presides over Everton going bust"..... ?

Never been surer mate. It’s what we deserve and need.

 

[roy vernon]

You've no idea if there were or weren't other interested parties at all.... it took years for the Mansour interest to come to light nevermind any other parties who never got past the initial phone call phase. Many clubs changed hands in that era, many with a smaller stadium and fanbase than us, so it's speculative and revisionist in the extreme to say that without BK we would be Forest or Sheff Wed. Johnson boxed himself into a corner and wanted out in a hurry. He pretty much then sold to the first bidders in a deal that was probably the route of least resistance. BK put a group of investers together and held the inside track. They eventually fluked Moyes, who came as a recommendation of Walter Smith. During that whole period our debts rose despite selling off most of our material assets and even Rooney, our commercial performance lagged behind all of our peer group and we invested comfortably the least of ALL football clubs in our stadium infrastructure. The board's job is to furnish the manager with funds and address all commercial and infrastructure requirements. By any metric they failed on all of this. No-one is saying that Moshiri has been a success but that doesn't change those years of stagnation that meant he inherited a club that had fallen so far behind the competition and had so much to address in terms of finances and stadium. He is essentially an absent landlord who paid off our longstanding debt and gave the serial failures on our board his cheque book. BK is still chairman of that board, so it is ludicrous to give him a free pass on everything that has happened since the take-over and insanity to forget the much longer process that preceded it, that saw us fall right down football's pecking order. The common denominator throughout mentions the boy's pen and somehow some people still lap it up. (I don't know anyone who ever experienced the boy's pen, who thinks that middle-class BK would've lasted 5 mins in there).

I've said that so many times mate. The pen was tough, they would have nicked his bus fare off him and left him in tears. He probably couldn't have done what a lot of us used to do back in the sixties, before they put the chicken wire up, and climb over the railings when the coppers back was turned and jump down into Gwladys St. I don't think Bill was capable of that, he was a posh boy.

 

[chicoazul]

@4737carlin has absolutely uppercut heads off in this thread. Quite the spectacle.

 

[4737carlin]

@4737carlin has absolutely uppercut heads off in this thread. Quite the spectacle.

Its my favourite thread, just be thankfully we dont have any of those trophy things hanging about, it would ruin it

 

[chicoazul]

Its my favourite thread, just be thankfully we dont have any of those trophy things hanging about, it would ruin it

It’s a cycle jerk of utter impotence, ironically.

 

[Tom Hughes]

Never been surer mate. It’s what we deserve and need.

He had us at the brink of that for years.... it didn't do us any favours then and certainly wont now..... especially with the debt of the stadium thrown on top.

 

[chicoazul]

He had us at the brink of that for years.... it didn't do us any favours then and certainly wont now..... especially with the debt of the stadium thrown on top.

Keep talking please, almost at the vinegar strokes here.

 

[Zigzigsputnik]

Surely they should name the new stadium after him, least we can do after all the 'good times '???

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

 

[Toff33Blues99]

As far as i'm aware Kenwright has been on the board of directors since 1989.

But not a majority shareholder till late 90s. He must be the only minority shareholder in the league who gets regular abuse for events beyond his control

 

[chicoazul]

I sense a turning point in the protective bubble cult of this thread. Most interesting.

 

[MikeH72]

International break going well I see

 

[chicoazul]

International break going well I see

This is all Kenwright’s fault.

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

Will Smith should slap him too.

 

[tommye]

I have a higher IQ than you, and drier boxies, mate.

hysteriaing