Michael Ball slams ‘out of touch’ Everton pair Bill Kenwright and Farhad Moshiri after Crystal Palace draw
Michael Ball has slammed Everton chairman Bill Kenwright and owner Farhad Moshiri for how “out of touch” they are.
Kenwright penned an open letter to Everton supporters on the eve of the Premier League meeting with Crystal Palace on Saturday (22 April).
A goalless draw and results elsewhere saw the Toffees drop into the relegation zone with just six matches left to play.
“I was baffled by the content of club chairman Bill Kenwright’s open letter to Everton fans on the eve of the Crystal Palace game,” Ball wrote for the Liverpool Echo.
“Every letter that the club have put out from Farhad Moshiri to the chairman, I’ve been baffled by. It shows how out of touch they are.
“None of us like criticism but if you don’t like the criticism you’re getting, do something positive about it. Doing it on the eve of an important fixture also leaves the floodgates open to give the players and fans unnecessary distractions.”
Continuous negativity
Things were perhaps looking up at Goodison Park last summer after the club narrowly avoided dropping down to the Championship.
After staying in the division by just four points, optimism was in the air around Merseyside as new faces arrived at the club.
But it’s been one bad news story after another for Everton this season, with the Toffees in real danger of not hitting the 39 points they reached last time out.
They currently occupy 18th spot with 29 points, with many supporters undoubtedly pointing the finger at the people behind the scenes, namely Kenwright and Moshiri.
The pair have proven their incompetence on many occasions, with fan anger reaching boiling point, and set to overflow should the club be relegated this time around.
Matters must be settled on the pitch first and foremost, with Premier League survival a necessity, with the background noise to be focused on once that safety is secured.
Kenwright and Moshiri will be well aware at this stage just how unliked they are at Goodison Park, with such dislike understandable in cases given some of the decisions they have made.