Seems strange that Elstone would give an interview to Kipper. Their forums were particularly vocal in their attitude towards the board.
I'm convinced they've only done this as part of damage control; so that they can now point to it when criticised and say, "Look, we have a good relationships with independent EFC sites - even the CEO did an interview with one" and spin it that way.
There's several strands to this. The first is banning him from Finch Farm to stop the match reports - is this because they want to do their own match reports? Is this because the goals from all the games now get shown on EvertonTV and they want internet traffic there? Is this because they felt his reports weren't positive enough? (They always were, and were never critical).
The second is the pettyness of stopping sending him teamsheets. I mean, any need? It tells you a lot about them - if they take a dislike to you, then you're officially persona non grata and you no longer exist to them in any way at all.
The third is the shocking inference of Bally's alleged 'inappropriate contact'. I've read his Twitter feed. Unless he's deleted stuff, I fail to see anything inappropriate. Wishing a player well. Asking a player if he's playing. Asking an injured player how his recovery is coming along. These are just standard fans' questions to players. If players don't like it, don't be on Twitter. Or even better, if they don't like Bally (no idea why they'd take such a dislike), block him. I wonder if players have complained? I think the inference part is quite outrageous though, in light of current news events in this country. Talk about trying to tar someone's character. Andy Lewis used to work at Everton and is now a newspaper editor in Dubai, having left the club in October. He had fans asking him about it on Twitter last night, and why he felt the need to say the ban was totally justified, but like a complete chicken, wouldn't say the reason why, is beyond me. Talk about not wanting to burn your bridges. Clearly he's never going to say anything unbiased about Everton, even when he no longer works for them. And he's now a newspaper editor. What a wonderful journalist he is!