Everton legend Neville Southall has issued an emphatic two-word verdict regarding his thoughts on Bill Kenwright’s chairmanship of the club.
At 5pm last Monday, Everton announced that chief executive Denise Barrett-Baxendale, chief finance and strategy officer Grant Ingles and non-executive director Graeme Sharp had all departed and that a statement would be made about interim appointments and the future of the chairman in the next 48 hours.
Almost a week after the Blues outlined the timescale of their self-appointed deadline, there have been no follow-up details.
Although Southall was Everton’s goalkeeper when Kenwright first joined the board in 1989, his trophy-laden playing spell at Goodison Park contrasts sharply to the current chairman’s time at the top. The former Wales international, who made a record 751 appearances for the Blues, is also their most-decorated player having won two League Championships, two FA Cups and the European Cup-Winners’ Cup but the longest silverware drought in Everton’s history predates Kenwright’s purchase of the club in 1999 and his subsequent spell as chairman after Farhad Moshiri became majority shareholder in 2016.
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Southall had tweeted about his former team-mate Sharp, one of the three board members to have left their posts at Everton last Monday and wrote: “Sharpy will be my friend to the day I die. We have gone through thick and thin together.
“Nothing will ever break that friendship. I sit down and wonder what I would have done.
“The honest truth is I don’t know. I think I do but I am guessing.”
Everton fan Graeme Martin replied to Southall on Twitter, stating: “You’re an Everton hero Nev, respected by us all. What’s your opinions on Kenwright?”
Southall, 64, simply responded: “Times up.” (sic)
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