He gave us four great years and gave us our pride back, he then left, most probably because we couldn’t compete in Europe, Bilbao was a sound team in Spain but in the shadow of Real and Barcalona, he then went to Man. City, left because that was an affair and Everton was a marriage, according to Howard, a marriage he walked away from, packed in Everton half way through a season, had a spell at Notts County, sacked I think, he had a spell with Sheffield Unt, got them to a play off final, not sure how it ended there, had a spell in Greece, didn’t last long, came back to Everton, as I said for a disastrous season, think he managed Birmingham City, so I’ll always be grateful for the four brilliant years he gave us in his first spell at Everton as a manage, better still I could talk all day about his time here as a brilliant player, absolutely brilliant player, in his own right not as part of the holy trinity. Howard should never have come back here as manager after the first spell, and the third spell he shouldn’t have been brought back for the simple reason he just wasn’t capable, because of his illness, which should have obvious to the people who hired him, it was to plenty of people in the city.
