The summer solstice, June 21, 2023 is the longest day of the year but Everton have already given us the longest ‘48 hours’ in history as the wait goes on for the statement they told the world would be made about interim appointments and the future of the chairman.
Readers of this article will need no reminding that at 5pm on Monday June 12, Everton Football Club released details of a board room exodus with chief executive officer Denise Barrett-Baxendale, chief finance and strategy officer Grant Ingles and non-executive director Graeme Sharp all departing and it was added that further correspondence regarding interim appointments and the future of chairman Bill Kenwright “will be made” in the next 48 hours. Not only has that self-imposed deadline passed, we’re now a whole week on from it with not a peep on the record from the club.
The silence is deafening and encapsulates the power vacuum that currently appears to be enveloping the club in what is a crucial summer for its survival among English football’s elite and what should be a time for change, new ideas and leadership. Quite understandably, loyal but long-suffering Evertonians are contacting the ECHO and asking what the hell is going on.
