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Bill Kenwright

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NathDogg said:
Rip Bill - it’s a shame he passed before he could leave his role at the club on his own terms and not under the cloud of recent times, which I believe is all that his biggest detractors, myself included, ever wanted for him.

I had zero issues with Bill as an evertonian or fan, and he clearly did a lot of things right for our club.

Collectively, We should always mourn the loss of an evertonian, no matter what walk of life they are from or part they play in our club.

We are a family, and like any family, we fall out with each other from time to time and have disagreements, but we’re still a family as we all love and care about our Everton very much.

It’s clear Bill did that and was the same as the rest of us, which is what we should be remembering at this time, alongside the countless tributes pouring in from his friends in the arts, theatre and the charities he has clearly helped over numerous years.

Thoughts with his family and friends at this time.
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Great post Nath.....sums up my feelings entirely.
 
Dario Terracotta said:
We’d lost 3-0 at Goodison to Charlton,after the game I was making my way down the stairs in the main stand,I could hear an old dear berating a fella behind me,”Son,what’s going on with this team of ours?”
”I know mum,we’ve got to get it right,we’re trying,honest mum”
I got to the bottom of the stairs looked around,it was Bill and his mum!!!I thought Christ he’s got all this on him from us Evertonians and even his Mum is giving him stick😀I always cut Bill some slack following that🙂
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Brilliant

Park End Ma's!! lol
 

I do wish he had left the club on a high note as opposed to holding onto it for so long. For a long time we really were the people’s club and despite my beliefs about him personally I think he was a good influence for a bit. But power just corrupts people. Over time he became more PT Barnum and less of a Good Samaritan. His ideals for the club were good when we lacked funding, but the top of the league is cutthroat and they didn’t survive the transition. Hopefully we can get out of this financial hole and take the next step afterwards. It will be a difficult journey back to any relevance that is for sure.
 
Osamabindiesel said:
I do wish he had left the club on a high note as opposed to holding onto it for so long. For a long time we really were the people’s club and despite my beliefs about him personally I think he was a good influence for a bit. But power just corrupts people. Over time he became more PT Barnum and less of a Good Samaritan. His ideals for the club were good when we lacked funding, but the top of the league is cutthroat and they didn’t survive the transition. Hopefully we can get out of this financial hole and take the next step afterwards. It will be a difficult journey back to any relevance that is for sure.
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This 100%

He was obviously a nice man, and the charity work/family club vibes though amounting to mediocrity in terms of sporting accolades had nice feel to it.

Maybe the fact he supported the club made it near impossible for him to leave. I personally can't understand why he didn't step down when the majority clearly wanted him to, but in retrospect that is easy to say objectively. Maybe he saw it as a relationship one partner wants out of, but he's hoping he can create the spark again.

Dunno, just trying to understand because I'm also angry that he didn't step down, and a bit sad for him that his last year might've been the worst for him personally
 
Tom Hughes said:
He pushed hard for Kirkby too, including several notable and well-documented lies. He pushed hard to kill the Kings dock, again with several well-documented lies, which has cost the club dearly eversince. He even pushed hard for Walton Hall Park..... so of course, he pushed hard for BMD, it was his last-chance saloon... most importantly he'd found a mug who was prepared to pay for it. Or so we believed!

Let's not be revisionist now because he's dead. Without Moshiri(USM) this would still be a set of drawings. Now, it looks like we're upto our eyes in debt and are getting sold to shark investors because of it! So maybe it is a fitting epitaph?
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Would it also be him who put the boot into your redevelopment plan?



Stay classy Tom 👌
 
In the things that truly matter, love for one’s family and his fellow man, he was absolutely exceptional to a degree I hadn’t realised until his passing.

RIP Bill- thanks for everything and congratulations on a life very well-lived
 

BNJ1878 said:
Sadly, that personality trait is completely and utterly irrelevant in the cut-throat world of professional sports.

If there were more 'Bills' in the league we may have faired a little better, but still get steamrollered by clubs with far greater ruthlessness off the park.

I have enjoyed reading all the good stories about him over the past few days. He clearly has had a positive impact on so many people, helped plenty out with little of no fanfare. But let's not forget, he's also trampled over people who he precieved had wronged him, including his own nephew.

I won't allow people to whitewash over the dismal failure his ownership and then chairmanship has been for Everton.

Bramley Moore - Bills Legacy lol
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He got into football at the end of one era and billionaires then took over. He was the last of the local owners. Yes he couldn’t keep up, but that doesn’t mean his legacy of a lifetime and whether or not he was a decent man should be based on the shifting sands of the premier league owners.
He never made his money in football, he was an incredibly successful man by any measure.
Football was part of his life and not the entire way to judge him
 
Toffeepot said:
This 100%

He was obviously a nice man, and the charity work/family club vibes though amounting to mediocrity in terms of sporting accolades had nice feel to it.

Maybe the fact he supported the club made it near impossible for him to leave. I personally can't understand why he didn't step down when the majority clearly wanted him to, but in retrospect that is easy to say objectively. Maybe he saw it as a relationship one partner wants out of, but he's hoping he can create the spark again.

Dunno, just trying to understand because I'm also angry that he didn't step down, and a bit sad for him that his last year might've been the worst for him personally
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Love won, Love unreciprocated, Love (eventually) lost.

This last couple of years must have been horrendous for him and his family/friends and he/they would have been better served by him stepping aside and spending more time trying to preserve his health. Not saying for one moment that his failure to do so contributed to his untimely demise but he may have been better distancing himself from the pressures and enjoying whatever time he had left with those closest. But, I guess, he felt some obligation to continue...which I fail to understand.
 

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