RIP Howard Kendall
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Sorry to hear. Good man for Liverpool as a City
win it for Kendall against the scum
God rest him and comfort those he leaves behind.
Yeah, I suppose he Everton's greatest manager in living memory. You don't need to win stuff to be a great manager...but he did win stuff! RIP.
RIP
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Sad news that. He was only 69
Good player and Manager. Respect. RIP
Good on Martinez. Apparently one of the first things he did when he became manager was invite Howard to Finch Farm and have a long chat with him. Amazingly, he'd never been asked before, and had never seen the place. Martinez told him to treat it like his home, so at least he felt part of the club again for his final few years. Two nice men.
His last two spells as manager were poor, but that seemed to be largely due to an almost complete lack of available funds available to sign good players.
Seem to recall a failed bid for Dion Dublin - who went to United for £1.5m or something - prompted the end of his second tenure, and his third was even more mired in penury.
But he will be remembered for that glorious spell in the 80s, in which his Everton were the best team in the country, and arguable Europe, although that was sadly largely unproven.
Seem to recall a failed bid for Dion Dublin - who went to United for £1.5m or something - prompted the end of his second tenure, and his third was even more mired in penury.
But he will be remembered for that glorious spell in the 80s, in which his Everton were the best team in the country, and arguable Europe, although that was sadly largely unproven.
I've never bought that last bit myself. To listen to the bitterest of the bitters you'd think they were on the verge of winning everything there was to win at the time of Heysel, but it's a load of hooey. They were good all right, but nothing like that far ahead of their competitors in this country and definitely not in Europe. When the ban ended they were nowhere to be seen.
Don't want to turn this into a partisan thing though. Howard Kendall was a decent guy, a good player and manager and someone who formed good relationships across the football divide. We could do with more of his sort in the game nowadays.
Don't want to turn this into a partisan thing though. Howard Kendall was a decent guy, a good player and manager and someone who formed good relationships across the football divide. We could do with more of his sort in the game nowadays.
Well, they were certainly the best team in the country, because they won the title - more than once. And that demolition of Rapid Vienna in 85 showed they could transfer that dominance to Europe.
Of course the Bitters will always claim that "ifithadntbinferHeysel" they would now be multiple European Cup winners, and that's risible, but there's no denying that they were a very good team indeed.
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