Nice one Kenwright

Great Dane · June 2, 2009

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What A Lovely Man Bill Kenwright Is
Now, before I start, I'm a Liverpool fan.

However, my mum's boss is an Evertonian (no one's perfect eh?), now with his team getting to the Cup final this year he was hoping against hope he could take his young lad to the final and so called to book tickets on the day they became available, the lady at the ticket office takes his credit card details and says he has two tickets for the game - up in the gods, but still, he would get to take his son to Wembley to watch his team - a special day out (especially as they don't get there very often eh?).

So, last week comes around but still no sign of the magical tickets - so my mums boss (we'll call him Simon...because that's his name) rings the club to ask what's going on, should he come and pick them up? Only to be told (4 days before the final) that no, he doesn't have tickets!

You can imagine how annoyed he must have been!! So he sits down at his desk and writes the strongest of strongly worded emails to all and sundry (including the Everton supporters club apparently). Thursday afternoon the office phone rings and Simon picks up the phone (they're solicitors so sitting round doing nothing is their idea of hard work) - its only Bill Kenwright!

"Hi Simon, I have seen your email and I'm sorry you have had such a hard time about the tickets - its unacceptable that you should be told you would have the tickets and then not get them and not get told until a few days before the game, I'd like to offer you 4 tickets, pitchside, right next to the tunnel to make it up to you!"

Now I know football these days is all about money (they are businesses after all) but I thought this was a really nice touch, and I can hardly imagine Roman (or many of the other premier league chairmen...sorry, chair-people) doing something similar.

So nice one Bill - you went someway to restoring my faith in there being at least some decent people left in the game and even though you lost, you made Simons young lads year (probably decade judging by their ability to get to major cup finals)!
Ste, LFC, Gibraltar

What a great club we are (y)

Azzbot · June 2, 2009

Great stuff.

It's a shame they didn't do the same for the other peoples applications who they lost.

davek · June 2, 2009

Azzbot said:
Great stuff.

It's a shame they didn't do the same for the other peoples applications who they lost.

They'd have been working class. It helps if you can "write the strongest of strongly worded emails to all and sundry" threatening legal action.

<listens for Neiler's footsteps>

Cena · June 2, 2009

Don't think this story will go anyway to changing Goat's mind about BK

Screech · June 2, 2009

It shouldn't, we all know he's a nice guy, thats not the issue some people have with him

Philw · June 2, 2009

davek said:
They'd have been working class. It helps if you can "write the strongest of strongly worded emails to all and sundry" threatening legal action.

<listens for Neiler's footsteps>

So your saying working class people can't write? Hmm, i'm cool with that.

davek · June 2, 2009

Philw said:
So your saying working class people can't write? Hmm, i'm cool with that.

It was a reference to the tone of the letter writer. :unsure:

I'm working class.

<whistles International>

Gazdalf · June 3, 2009

Great Chairman, Great Bloke.

Nice one Bill. Nice touch.

Nebbiolo · June 3, 2009

davek said:
It was a reference to the tone of the letter writer.

I'm working class.

<whistles International>

I thought you were middle-class. I'm sure that you mentioned that you go away on business.

Plus, you were at Glasgow, which is a bit posh.

I'm still working-class because I'm unemployed. :lol:

Or would that make me lower-class or sub-proletariat? :unsure:

mikey · June 3, 2009

There's people offering hundreds to go and watch our beloved team and paying touts for the privilege and there's Kenwright with 4 spare tickects in his back pocket,waiting for such a call.
Seaon ticket holders never got the chance to enter the ballot for Bill's pockets.
I bet there's quite a few thousand who went to wembley via players,executive members who probably wont go to another Everton match unless they get to wembley again.
We all complained about the family football issue and lack of tickets and here we have our chairman giving them out.
Thats why I paid £117.30 for 2 tickets in the gods to compensate the fact he can do this.
Nice one Bill!

Goat · June 3, 2009

Cena_is_an_Evertonian said:
Don't think this story will go anyway to changing Goat's mind about BK

Hes a lovely man, sickmakingly lovely. The story probably isnt true.................. I want pictures.

davek · June 3, 2009

Nebbiolo said:
I thought you were middle-class. I'm sure that you mentioned that you go away on business.

Plus, you were at Glasgow, which is a bit posh.

<spits>

Yer'avinalaff, lid.

<starts up Elvis's 'In the Ghetto' and types on>:

Born and raised on a council estate, first job roofing, went to the old Poly before it became JMU, got bursaries to keep me in HE for the best part of 6 years thereafter. 'Go away on business', pah! If you can call tying up some odds and sods I do in the knowledge economy of academia 'business'.

Nebbiolo said:
I'm still working-class because I'm unemployed.

Or would that make me lower-class or sub-proletariat?

Reserve army of labour. (y)

TX Bill · June 4, 2009

Greatest. Chairman. Ever.

Goat · June 4, 2009

Gonna have to say, NO!

TX Tiburon · June 4, 2009

mikey said:
There's people offering hundreds to go and watch our beloved team and paying touts for the privilege and there's Kenwright with 4 spare tickects in his back pocket,waiting for such a call.
Seaon ticket holders never got the chance to enter the ballot for Bill's pockets.
I bet there's quite a few thousand who went to wembley via players,executive members who probably wont go to another Everton match unless they get to wembley again.
We all complained about the family football issue and lack of tickets and here we have our chairman giving them out.
Thats why I paid £117.30 for 2 tickets in the gods to compensate the fact he can do this.
Nice one Bill!

Mikey, whether the story is true or not, your response seems whiney to me. Mr. Kenwright is damned either way. If he does nothing, there's complaint. If he does a feel good for a couple of supporters you complain that it wasn't you or that he didn't help thousands.

Yet you got to go to the game. If you can fork over £120 for 2 tickets why didn't you spring for an extra for the first Oliver Twist you came across? Some people will just gripe with a mouthful of ice cream.