The problem here is that the relationship between board and fans is such that even if true, most fans appear not to believe it and are suggesting it was a lie made up to tarnish fans before one of our most important games in recent years.
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Azza
Player Valuation: £80m
Let's just try an build a timeline to this shall we.
12pm - Everton release statement about board not attending due to safety concerns.
12:11pm - Julitte Ferrington tweets
12:25pm - 5Live start to report on statement - they go to Juliette Ferrington at Goodison who is reporting on the game. At 12:27 (skip to 27 minutes in broadcast), Juliette Ferrington states, "I understand her car was spat at and jostled, so fans were trying to physically move the car after she was trying to leave after that Brighton game, she was in the car her husband. There was some very sexualised and misogynistic language used towards her."
She makes absolutely no reference to DBB being "physically manhandled by a male" - despite this surely being the more serious of the events that occurred out of the two. Surely that would have been the major talking point instead the broadcast chats about the statement for a moment then going back to talking about football in the Championship.
12:49pm - Julitte Ferrington tweets what she has just said on the radio.
1:28pm - Joe Thomas / Liverpool Echo make report of DBB being put in headlock
2:45pm - Greg O'Keefe / David Ornstein / The Athletic ratify the story stating - "according to a club source who was asked not to be named for their safety."
And that's it. All from 'club sources' via effectively 3 journalists. Two of whom are well in with the clubs media team and David Prentice.
12pm - Everton release statement about board not attending due to safety concerns.
12:11pm - Julitte Ferrington tweets
12:25pm - 5Live start to report on statement - they go to Juliette Ferrington at Goodison who is reporting on the game. At 12:27 (skip to 27 minutes in broadcast), Juliette Ferrington states, "I understand her car was spat at and jostled, so fans were trying to physically move the car after she was trying to leave after that Brighton game, she was in the car her husband. There was some very sexualised and misogynistic language used towards her."
She makes absolutely no reference to DBB being "physically manhandled by a male" - despite this surely being the more serious of the events that occurred out of the two. Surely that would have been the major talking point instead the broadcast chats about the statement for a moment then going back to talking about football in the Championship.
12:49pm - Julitte Ferrington tweets what she has just said on the radio.
1:28pm - Joe Thomas / Liverpool Echo make report of DBB being put in headlock
2:45pm - Greg O'Keefe / David Ornstein / The Athletic ratify the story stating - "according to a club source who was asked not to be named for their safety."
And that's it. All from 'club sources' via effectively 3 journalists. Two of whom are well in with the clubs media team and David Prentice.
tommytowne
Player Valuation: £50m
Yeah fair point mate, it’s been leaked without doubt and mucks been thrown so fair points. Still if it did happen and I’m not saying it did, she has a right not to report it to the feds, rightly or wrongly - the club can’t force her.
I don’t know the truth of it, but it’s at the point given the muck has been thrown and the reputation damage that the club need to clarify it.
Daytripper
Player Valuation: £40m
Nice summary mate
This is the problem mate, it’s a total breakdown.
Out and out civil war.
There will be no winners.
The statement specifically said an unnamed 'Security & Safety Advisor' were the ones who gave the advice.Just thought instructed was very concrete in their statement, who else could instruct them but the Feds and I could understand why they would, they would have been busy yesterday. But all fair points!
Chairman Bill Kenwright, CEO Denise Barrett-Baxendale, Chief Finance & Strategy Officer Grant Ingles and Non-Executive Director Graeme Sharp have reluctantly accepted the outcome of the safety assessment carried out by security advisors.
The Board members received the instruction following malicious and unacceptably threatening correspondence received by the Club and increasing incidents of anti-social behaviour – including targeted physical aggression - at recent home matches.
A Security & Safety Advisor said: “Following a thorough risk assessment, and in response to tangible threats received by the Club and intelligence we have gathered, the Club’s Board members have been told they must not attend today’s fixture.”
It didn't say independent or police. It could've been advice from the internal head of security and safety, for example.
Ah good spot mate, thanks for posting, so some one /company employed by the club……I presumed it was the Feds.
Begs the question, with reported death threats etc - how the club is handling these threats and allegations - I mean surely reported death threats need to be reported.
Maybe not as fabricated as first thought…
Only Moshiri can take the actions necessary to prevent that
anton66
Player Valuation: £50m
No mention of her getting dry bummed as well.
Bluebonic
Player Valuation: £35m
They’ll do a ’deepfake’ video of her being headlocked by Bill, then crop the image so you cant see Bill’s face. It will only be given away by Bill getting wood hearing him whisper “have you ever considered bondage Denise”?
Harryflashman
Player Valuation: £60m
But they hinted just enough that people reading it , as we’ve seen , thought it was police advice . I spoke to lads yesterday who had the same impression. They no exactly what they’re doing
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