Worst-Run Club in the Country
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- ISBN 9781801509091
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 17 Feb 2025
- Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The Worst-Run Club in the Country is the definitive story of Farhad Moshiri's six and a half years as the majority shareholder of Everton Football Club.
From the moment of his February 2016 arrival, the British-Iranian billionaire set about trying to rouse one of English football's perennial sleeping giants.No expense was spared in arming managers with substantial transfer budgets while he also sought to right the wrongs of the club's endless quest for a new stadium to replace their spiritual yet outdated Goodison Park home.
But Moshiri's grand designs unravelled as quickly as they had begun. On and off the pitch, the Toffees soon descended into chaos, with their long-standing Premier League status being placed in repeated jeopardy, the club being hit with a record ten-point deduction and irreparable division being sown within the fanbase by Moshiri's appointed hierarchy. All this led Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher to declare his boyhood heroes to be 'the worst-run club in the country'.
Richard Buxton is a freelance football journalist who has covered Everton for the last 15 years. He has written for numerous outlets in both the UK and overseas, including FourFourTwo, the Football Association, Sunday Mirror, Sports Illustrated, Metro and MARCA. His previous book Fine Margins: How Manchester City and Liverpool Forged Football's Ultimate Rivalry was released in 2020.
