The Everton Board Thread

[4737carlin]

That is simply not good enough from Joe Thomas or The Echo.

They've published a baseless claim from "anonymous club sources" that cannot be confirmed by outside evidence or Merseyside Police.

There's no word of retracting the claim or acknowledging their fault and role in spreading this claim and libelling our supporters.

It's the Echo, an absolute rag of a paper, expected nothing less

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Looks like they are digging in.

Digging themselves into a bigger hole.

 

[trueblue84]

Looks like they are digging in.

The echo seem to be trying to distance themselves without upsetting the club, though. Bit of a week article.

 

[Wat Tyler]

The state of them. Enhanced measures.

There’ll be a moat round the ground next with a drawbridge. Bunch of toerags.

 

[Efcjake]

Looks like they are digging in.

Compare this to the mea culpa statement Ian Wright put out.

The Echo and Joe Thomas should be ashamed of the role they have played in this situation.

 

[ArtetaMoney]

Looks like they are digging in.

“Everton to make up more lies to tarnish the fans, prior to the next home game”

 

[4737carlin]

The echo seem to be trying to distance themselves without upsetting the club, though. Bit of a week article.

To be fair the Echo have there own history of printing derogatory stuff about Everton too, the having be bothered upsetting the club in the past

 

[Khalekan]

I wonder will Kenwright and his gang turn up at Hammers on Saturday.

 

[Adscum]

Once again the Everton stasis takes hold.

Not a chance this goes away without resignations but they just dither and delay regardless.

Bunch of charlatans.

 

[Toffeeslam]

I wonder will Kenwright and his gang turn up at Hammers on Saturday.

You won’t see them for the rest of the season, disgraceful behaviour to slander the fan base then go into hiding with no evidence or apologies.

 

[Tommy.]

Thinking on about this, it strikes me that they must have released the original statement when they did on the assumption that the majority of the fanbase was with them.

Think Sharpe's "one man and his dog" comments.

They massively underestimated the swell of resentment towards them across the matchday Blues and it's just mobilised further against them.

It's honestly the best thing they could have done for longterm 'Kenwright out' fans like me, it's truly exposed them for what they are on a countrywide scale and now the screw is starting to turn.

*Does a chef kiss thing.

 

[Azza]

Looks like they are digging in.

Nothing new in this from Everton themselves.

Club sources detailed the incident in response to queries flowing from the statement it released hours before the match with Southampton.

queries flowing?


Let's refer back to the timeline.

The statement was put out at 12pm. At 12:11pm Juliet Ferrington made reference to the alleged incident.

1:28pm The Echo article about 'headlockgate' is released.

the ECHO and other media outlets published articles upon receipt of the same information from senior club sources - and then continued to seek further details from the club throughout the day and over the course of the weekend.

One hour and 28 minutes after the original statement they're provided the same information from "senior club sources" and published the story without establishing any facts and other than a more specific detail about the apparent physical incident it seems to me their queries during that hour and 28 minute must not have been very indepth. They're now claiming they seeked to establish further details of the incident - yet didn't say that in any articles just what they had been told by "sources".

"the matter is understood to have been dealt with internally and considered as resolved

- if that was the case then why didn't the club just say that when they originally briefed journalists about the alleged incident. Or better yet why did the club brief someone who's not even a journalist, more of a broadcast reporter and a female one at that and then wait over an hour before telling other journalists about the alleged incident.



This is just The Echo trying to make it look like they are / were doing some genuine journalism rather than just relaying disingenuous information directly from Prentice himself.

Let's just try an build a timeline to this shall we.


12pm - Everton release statement about board not attending due to safety concerns.

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12:11pm - Julitte Ferrington tweets

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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.

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1:28pm - Joe Thomas / Liverpool Echo make report of DBB being put in headlock


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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."


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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.

 

[The Binman]

I did love that game though. I kept playing the 04 addition for years. Got Istres FC to become a giant of Europe for over a decade. Does this qualify me for the Everton manager's role?

Absolutely not - but director of football/chief scout?! 100%

 

[longers]

I think the BBC might be getting cold feet and back tracking now mate. Ian Wright has issued an appology to the Everton fans for his knee jerk reaction, he says he should have known better because he always found the Everton fans to be good. He now says in the light of no reports having been made to the police and no advice from the police given to the club, he thinks he got it wrong and wish's to apologize to the fans.

Now whether Wright is making that statement off his own bat,or whether the BBC have told their nodding dogs that there is a change of policy towards the Everton board, who knows? I would be surprised if someone like Wright, who relies on the BBC for his livelihood would buck the party line though.

Wright is employed by numerous channels, he’s often a pundit on the official premier league broadcasts that are broadcast worldwide as well as BBC and ITV.

 

[The Binman]

It’s an absolute shambles, how we have got here. The Everton board treat the fans with utter contempt. There’s no real channel of communication. It’s almost like they’re running the club into the ground ‘on purpose’.

How can these people who in some respects are captains of their industry do this, or not see what they are doing, and do something to change?

Alleged money laundering. Alleged lying to fans about assaults and threats of violence if they come to the ground, it’s literally laughable. Lying about transfer bids, lying about supposed new grounds

Everton have become a real life soap opera.

We are embarrassing.