Carlo Ancelotti, one of money’s biggest admirers, is apparently taking one of his former pension-toppers, Everton Football Club, to court over, yes, you guessed it: more money.

Well this is just further proof of…whatever you want it to be really, because there are absolutely no details whatsoever. But of course when has that ever stopped anyone from speculating wildly and in time watching that fabrication become fact? Well, ‘internet fact’ – which is even better than a real fact, because you only have to believe it if it reinforces your existing world view.

Hopefully the Blues have acted like the ‘ruthless business-people’ that we are always told we lack, and absolutely shafted the avaricious Italian. The quizzical Koeman. 

However, that’s their business.

And talking about complete guesswork and just making shit up, three Everton directors have stepped down from their roles at the club. That’s Graeme Sharp, Denise Barret-Baxendale and Grant Ingles. Although the last one could stay if he wanted, as no one actually knows what he looks like.

Short term football results determine the fate of the club’s employees. Everton are shite, we’ve already sacked the manager, so the search for a single point of failure moves upstairs.

None of us know what any of those individuals contributed, either negatively or positively, to the running of the club. But complicated problems require really, really simple solutions in the realms of social media and football. 

So sack someone. Anyone.

It’s thought that Bill Kenwright will be the next to make way. 

He’s been a divisive figure to say the least, but there are intelligent people caught up in the sustained campaign against him who must know – they really must – that so much of what is said about him is clearly downright poisonous fantasy. Proper QAnon, Pizzagate, ‘Lock Her Up’, 4Chan weirdness.

It used to be just the preserve of certain internet-based ‘business guys’, but it’s eked out into the wider populace as the club’s on-field fortunes have declined, culminating in the relegation horror-shows of the last two seasons. 

He’s been at Everton throughout all these turbulent times so obviously has to take his share of responsibility, but why ruminate on the perfect storm of the introduction of Financial Fair Play, the impact of international sanctions against the club’s major backer, and the reckless spending of a succession of absolute mercenary gobshite managers who don’t give two fucks about the club, when you can just say that the sooner Kenwright dies the better? 

A real conversation overheard in the Park End, that one.

But to not blame everything from Collina through to COVID on the aged theatre impresario would perhaps indicate to the wider world that you are in fact happy with Everton being in the lower reaches of the Premier League.

And you can’t have that, can you? 

Hopefully the new fellas who come in from MSP get some decent PR advice – better than the last lot had anyway – say a load of fan-friendly stuff and we can get some sort of ‘reset’. Because the club has enough on its fucking plate without all this other, constant negative ‘noise’.

Anyway, there’s an interesting interview here with Edwin van Der Sar just before he resigned as Ajax CEO. There’s stuff at the end about how the things that are said about people at clubs, particularly when they are untrue, do have a real impact.

Nothing about Marc Overmars sending pictures of his cock though, which was a bit disappointing.