This isn’t satire is it…
The biggest hurdle me thinks they have in persuading a decent manager to come to Woodison is the toxic crowd they have.
When fans are guilty of such things as fixing non football related banners declaring threats such as
" we know where you live"
With the spate of armed intrusions some players have already suffered from, and seemingly becoming more regular, surely that would rule out any family man with children or grandchildren in tow… Who is ever going to want to put down long term roots with those kind of threats hanging over them.
Unless of course they opt for the Maureen approach when he was at Old Toilet and spent his entire tenure holed up in the Lowry Hotel to avoid such risk… Did not bode well for any longevity plans as he couldn’t wait to get back to his family in London…
After last weekends game against Villa, maybe, just maybe, it is slowly dawning on Ferguson, and his faithful followers that his cheerleading style from the side-lines is not guaranteed to win them the points when they most need them… With each game he is in charge, it may well turn out to be another stumble towards bottom 3 and oblivion into the Championship.
The Blueshite are in a mess… Personally, I just love to see it :0)
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Imagine spending more than Liverpool and battling relegation. Third highest in the league when it comes to Net Spend.
This is going to end in relegation for sure.
Champions League spending for a club which won’t even make the Conference League.
Emphasis is of my own. 
But a toxic reaction from Everton fans to his proposed appointment means Lampard is now a leading candidate.
Music to my ears. Easier to dislike Everton manager more now.
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Considering their choices for future manager, it’s not long till they end up in Champions League, oops, Championship or better still, liquidated.
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Be interesting for Lampard, I would say he did quite well in his first season but was totally unqualified to deal with a club that buys you new toys you didn’t ask for the season onwards, maybe he is the level of Ole (He took Cardiff down mind so fingers crossed).
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No doubt who this guy wants…who’d ya call…
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Weren’t they calling for him being sacked when he was previously in charge?
Leave Bill alone says it all.
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Sounded more realistic at the start of the conversation than probably 80% of Everton fans.
And then it escalated. 
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I think it is really sad that as a club they seem to have lost their way in regards to tradition and footballing culture.
For me, I think Hodgson was a step for us in that direction (and to some degree Souness), but even when things were otherwise bad I think there was a greater sense of who we were and where to go.
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The Blueshite have never had a Bill Shankly making us believe from the moment he arrived… and seeing the fruits of his labour
LFC owes that guy a debt it could never repay…
Even in our darkest days under G&H and even Hodgson… we never stopped hoping that things would return to normal someday, willing it to happen even, that we would become conquerors of Europe again…
The Blueshite have NEVER had a golden era nor a prolific winning manager in their history so they have nothing to relate back to… Let them go down and maybe one day in the future, they will win the Championship :0)
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Tbf they had quite a successfull period under Howard Kendall from 1982-85, winning the league twice and FA cup in between their titles, as well as a European Cup Winners Cup - remember that trophy? To say it’s been slim pickings for them since is certainly stating the obvious.
Their supporters were (and still are) very bitter that they were stopped from having a European Cup tilt in the 1985-86 seasom because of the Heysel ban - hence the epithet ‘bitters’. They might even have won it too as the side was very good, so the general negative attitude toward us could have been somewhat excused for a time, but it has persisted to this day. Stuck in the past? You better believe it, brother.
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Why the hell would Sam go back there?
They already had him and the simpletons turned on him with their pitchforks and tourches, so I really struggle to see why he would want to put himself through that sort of abuse again?
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Itself building on the school of science legacy.
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Not exactly true though…in the 60s in my youth when we had Shanks, they had Harry Catterick and matched us with two league championships and an FA Cup win. They repeated that feat under Howard Kendall in the 80s with 2 Championships and an FA Cup win and a European trophy.
As a scouser and for the sake of my city, I don’t want to see them go down. My ideal scenario is for both sides to be succesful (them slightly less than us) and in the Champions League but that won’t happen in my lifetime.
That was how it was for best part of 30 years of my life. A healthy rivalry and lots of banter…
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Problem is that fans of my age will have had little to no memory of that time (I’m 40) and grown up almost entirely in our shadow, the 30 year old fan just… nothing, and less than that just pure bitterness.
There will be alot of rinsing out before what you experienced as a rivalry can come about again. A lot of rinsing out. It would probably take generations.
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Look, Lampard took Chelsea from 3rd to 4th, then spent £200m on the team and helped them down to 9th before being sacked.
With the right financial backing, there’s no limit to how low he could take Everton.
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Aye, until George Graham got to Arsenal Everton were still second all time in league titles, and even to this day they are still ahead of Chelsea and City as 4th most ever. At the point they started losing their way in the early 90s they did so from a position of one of most successful clubs in english football history.
And while some may scoff at the reason for the supposed bitterness over the Hysel ban, it was less because it robbed them of the chance to win, but because the ban precipitated the break up of their side who went in pursuit of European football. I dont buy that as they’d gone downhill under Harvey before those players started leaving, but it was what accelerated their fall and made it more difficult to avert.
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Ah yes, Harry Catterick.
A manager they decided they wanted out because he played youngster Joe Royle instead of their underperforming centre forward of the time. Taxi for Catterick was the call from the stands (a reference to how their previous manager was sacked by John Moores putting him in a taxi to Lime St 
), and a mob of their fans waited for Harry after the game and gave him a gentle kicking before he could get on the team bus.
Joe Royle went on to become an Everton legend of course.
Another fine moment in their glorious history.
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