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My good friend and esteemed Everton FC Heritage Society colleague Tony Wainwright contributes heavily to the commemorative work around the Liverpool Pals regiments. He has received national recognition for his efforts and is a fount of knowledge and inspiration to an amateur researcher like me. I was delighted to volunteer some time to delving intoContinue reading “Lest We Forget”

Scouring old newspaper reports, statutory records, census returns and history books while working through and cross-checking the relevant dates and stories of the men who played for Everton in years gone by turns up all sorts of interesting events, tangents and curiosities. The full names of a number of those who turned out in theContinue reading “A Knight of the Round Table at Inside-Left?”

I’ve been thinking about how Everton should mark the departure from Goodison Park to Bramley Moore Dock. It’s massive this. Seismic. Nearly 150 years of history. The impact of the move on the dynamic in L4 cannot be underestimated. Everton stand on closer to the edge of greatness than they have in a generation, maybeContinue reading “Making Our Move”

Well, it’s 23 September 2020, the forecast is for drizzle. We’re heading back into lockdown again. I coughed earlier and, for a moment, had a little panic. Good grief. It’s over, isn’t it? We’re doomed! On the positive side, it’s an important date. On this day, 71 years ago, Bruce Frederick Springsteen was born, atContinue reading “Boss Time, part 1”

I’m watching a short episode of Arena on BBC iPlayer which was first screened in the year I was born. It features the Sheffield-born abstract painter John Hoyland. The film is titled Six Days in September. It was actually filmed in September 1978, exactly a year before I arrived. It follows six days during whichContinue reading “Phobia”

I don’t really paint much real stuff like footballers or landscapes or dogs or whatever. At university I wanted to become an Abstract Expressionist like my painting hero Jackson Pollock, only I couldn’t articulate what I was trying to do, I couldn’t contextualise it. So I gave up and did some Everton paintings I couldContinue reading “Back to basics…”

The first line of this poem was going to be ‘The first line of this poem is a lie’But then I realised this meant that the lie was actually in the second lineSo I made ‘the first line is a lie’ the title of the pieceNow I’ve written all of this the lie is actuallyContinue reading “On the road again…”

25 years ago today. Few more important goals in modern #EvertonFC history. Sparked the brief revival under Joe Royle which resulted in our last trophy. Without this goal, I shudder to think where we’d be today. Too long ago. Next Everton painting project underway. #BigDunc💙

Proud and delighted to have sold the four paintings which I exhibited at the Everton in the Community gala screening of Howard’s Way at St. George’s Hall in Liverpool city centre on Monday 11 November 2019. An incredible night for all involved. For me as artist, Evertonian and utterly spellbound human being, it was almostContinue reading “SOLD!”