Thanks to everyone who helped make this possible, including @xxfrancescax @EvertonHeritage @Toffeebooks #efc

My personal substack @Substack has had a redesign also, featuring stroke, stroke advocacy, personal experiences and poetry - not football! Thanks for reading theesk.substack.com/

The Esk has a new home. The same independent analysis of football's money, owners and rules, now organised so you can find it: nearly 1,000 articles by topic, club, owner and case, plus new hubs on Everton, Chelsea, the Man City case and the IFR. theesk.org

I'm delighted to be contributing a signed copy of 'The Man Who Bled Blue' to this year's @ChildrenInRead charity book auction. More details below. @Toffeebooks #EFC jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta…

Brilliant work by cartoonist @BJennings90, perfectly capturing the absurdity of counter-terror policing in the UK. #SallyRooney #SarahHelm

Thanks to @WelsbyElton for alerting me to this @MCmarkjones photo from Kate Bush's visit to Radio City, where she was interviewed by then Everton captain Mike Lyons - an encounter recalled in 'The Man Who Bled Blue'. #EFC mountvernonpublishing.com/ca…

There has never, in our lifetimes, been a genocidal ethnic cleansing campaign that the genocidal ethnic cleaners have so openly bragged about doing.

Winter is coming to Gaza. The survivors of genocide are living in apocalyptic conditions. They need our help. Please support them here 👇 gaza-city.org/campaign/6

‘He was out there to help people’ - family of aid worker killed in Gaza. Aid worker James Henderson, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. He was working for the charity World Central Kitchen when the strike killed him and 6 other aid workers.

🔴 Vehicles carrying diplomats from France, Belgium, and Poland were attacked by settlers in the West Bank village of Taybeh. Settler terror gangs seem determined to show diplomats what Palestinians endure every day. The IDF, meanwhile, seems determined to show them that it can’t handle these settler militias. In reality, it arms them.

Should Morgan Rogers have seen red for this?

Enough is enough

Watch the first clip here. Heidi Levine is a Washington Post journalist in her mid 60s. Let's see how the Western media handles this one.

For anyone unaware, this was the view on Billy Kenny in the Guardian in 2008 ⬇️ No 1 in a list of football’s lost talents The Goodison Gazza 📘 Out now and available from @TransalpinoO

If you haven’t yet seen this, it’s worth taking a look at this detailed examination of the UK Govt’s response to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. One key revelation is when aid workers including British nationals were killed in an Israeli strike on a World Central Kitchen convoy. Two days later, the then UK Foreign Sec David Cameron signed off on the latest arms export approval to Israel. That same day he announced an urgent and “transparent” investigation into the attack. channel4.com/programmes/brit…

Many of English football's best players started off on a local pitch, with a volunteer coach, and the best of those are the ones who never forget that!

"It is hard to overstate the scale of death, destruction, and suffering inflicted on Gaza... The 223,000 tons of explosives dropped on Gaza—roughly equivalent to 15 times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima—have killed more than 74,000 Palestinians, the vast majority of them civilians, and reduced most of Gaza to rubble. Israel’s assault, over which it is currently on trial for genocide at the International Court of Justice, has wiped out some 92 percent of Gaza’s housing stock, 95 percent of its farmland, all 12 of its universities, and nearly half of its 36 hospitals—in other words, the very institutions and infrastructure that sustain life." - @elgindy_ foreignaffairs.com/palestini…

⚽️ Bill Shankly got stuck in playing 15 a side games on the same pitches ⚽️ Lyons took Everton players for summer kickabouts against the Lobster pub in Croxteth and Phil Thompson’s Falcon pub side in Kirkby ⚽️ Among the 1st division pros, the great John O’Leary stood out 2/2

This chapter in @simon22ph’s brilliant book on EFC captain Mike Lyons offers a stark contrast to the culture of today, when multimillionaire players are untouchable and clubs the plaything of absentee billionaires or nation states ⚽️ Lyons ran kids’ Sunday league teams… 1/2

Opinion: Why are the Friedkins wanting to sell Everton Football Club: theesk.org/2026/10/09/why-ar…

We’re back with a bang on @TheBlueRoomEFC wherever you get your podcasts. Author of “The Man Who Bled Blue” @simon22ph joined us back in 2024 to discuss the seminal 04/05 campaign. Tune in as he and Liam reminisce over Arteta, Osman, Cahill et al.