Posted by adi on Nov 28, 2009 in
Default As an Everton fan I normally approach the derby games with excitement but our awful form coupled with our injury list havn’t filled me with optimism this time round. Thankfully Liverpool don’t seem in any better form so we may well sneak a result and turn our season round.
You’ll have to forgive me for being less than partisan but the game I’m really looking forward to is the Gran Classico between Barca and Real Madrid. For me its the biggest match of the year between the biggest teams in the world. Hopefully Messi and Ronaldo will both be passed fit for what should be a belter. Can’t wait.
Tags: barca, everton, Football
Posted by adi on Nov 14, 2009 in
Default A few years ago I setup an Everton fan page on Facebook as there was no official page at that time. It proved really popular with fans and quickly grew to 20,000+ followers.
Recently Facebook have been cracking down on pages and as mine was not an official Everton authorized page my publishing rights were revoked. Finding out how to contest this decision was an incredibly difficult job, but that’s probably for another blog.
What has amazed me however was the response from Everton when this issue was put to them to see if they could help out.
Instead of seeing the potential for communicating with this large list of fans the club instead started threatening legal action for using things like the club logo and daring to use the clubs own Facebook application on the page. The only way they would help is if the page was changed to something not mentioning Everton at all.
Talk about biting your nose off to spite your face. Such a shame as football clubs are such a natural audience for social media as fans are so willing to do an awful lot of work on the clubs behalf. Sadly few clubs seem willing or able to let go of control and leverage this enormously powerful resource. A message to the clubs should surely be that the brain power of these supporters is just as important, if not more so, than the money you can extract from them.
Tags: everton, Facebook, fan pages, social media
Posted by
adi on Oct 14, 2008 in
Play I’ve been a member of the GrandOldTeam.com Everton forum for a little while now under the sudonym Bruce Wayne (long story), and a moderator for the past few months. It’s a really great community for all things Everton, with some lovely folks from around the world. Danny and Dylan have done a super job in creating the place from scratch and turning it into one of the best Everton communities on the web.
Anyway, enough bum licking. Hopefully some of those guys will find their way over to this humble blog. In which case, hello to all. Good to have you here 
Tags: bruce wayne, everton, grand old team
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