The Team
Ryan Grant - Site Owner and Webmaster
Designing and building the website, Ryan puts the content and website together, and his role is like a ‘manager’. Ryan also writes the core content of the website and a share of the articles that he publishes on his website.
Email Ryan: ryan[at]followeverton.com
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Liam White - Head Writer
A lifelong blue, who, like every other blue, feels the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end as that drumbeat kicks, like every other blue chants until his voice goes coarse and of course, with immense pride, supports the premier team in the L4 postal district. A season ticket holder since the mid 90s, Liam, after a few years out in St Helens, has returned to Liverpool, home of the blues. Whilst being headwriter for FollowEverton, Liam also works with several small companies and has mildly successfully dabbled in comedy. Liam’s favourite player is Neville Southall, who saved one of his greatest performances for Liam’s favourite match, the 1995 FA Cup Final.
See Liam’s story Archive >> Email Liam: liam[at]followeverton.com
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Mike Brandon - Communications
Mike joined the FollowEverton team when it was known as FollowFollowEverton (FFE) and decided to stick around. Mike worked in the original moderator team and has continued in this role ever since. He is now the Communications Officer and takes on the duty of dealing with member queries and complaints be it with technical problems and advice to grievances with other members. If you have any questions about the site or would like advice on anything, direct them to Mike ( toffeebrandon on the forum or email mike[at]followeverton.com) and he’ll be glad to help.
Mike’s Everton life came from family and his first game was with his uncle, sat in the Gwladys Street as Everton drew 1-1 with Arsenal in October 1994 with David Unsworth scoring the opener. A few days later he witnessed Gary Ablett head home for Everton’s first league win of the season over West Ham, and his first season in the stands saw him witness all but the FA Cup Final itself where Paul Rideout and Neville Southall cemented themselves as heroes. Its been a long time and much suffering since then, the lowest point being boro fans singing Never Walk Alone at the Riverside after dumping us out of the FA Cup 3-0 in 2002, but Mike looks forward to the 2008-9 season with much optimism. His favourite bluenoses include Duncan Ferguson, Neville Southall, Alan Stubbs, Andrei Kanchelskis and Tim Cahill and also believes Kevin Campbell should never be forgotten for his part in Everton history. His most prized Everton possession is a signed (by Howard Kendall) picture of himself as a baby sat in the Cup Winner’s Cup in ‘85.
See Simon’s story Archive >> Email Mike: mike[at]followeverton.com
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Simon T - Writing and Forum Moderation
Simon has been a Blue all his life. Born into a family of avid Evertonians, Simon been going to Goodison since 1978. Simon’s an exiled Scouser now living in Yorkshire. His favourite all time player is ‘Big Bob Latchford’. His favourite game is the 3-2 win over Wimbledon - “It took 10 years off my life expectancy that match - but an unbelievable afternoon, every emotion known was on show during that 90 minutes.”. Simon is ‘funny, witty and clever’ according to forum posters.
See Simon’s story Archive >> Email Simon: simon[at]followeverton.com
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Daniel Kemp - Writing and Forum Moderation
A massive Evertonian from the south west, Dan made his first visit to Goodison Park back in 1994 and has been in love with the place ever since. He was a mascot for the toffees in 1998 and brought them luck as they beat Crystal Palace 3-1 that day. He met some of the all time Everton greats that day including Duncan Ferguson, Howard Kendall and Gary Speed (at the time).
See Daniel’s story Archive >> Email Daniel: dan[at]followeverton.com
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Edward Lloyd - Writing
Edward, a lifelong Evertonian born in Kent to a Scouse father and southern mother, has supported the blues since he was a youngster. Away from football Edward loves music with his favourite band being System of a Down. Edward also plays the guitar. Edward’s favourite player is Big Dunc, who was his idol while he was growing up. Edward’s favourite match was Everton 1 Manchester United 0 in 2005.
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Karl Hinchcliffe - Writing and Forum Moderation
If anyone who knew Karl was asked for one word that they would associate him with it would be Everton. Karl is a 5th generation Everton supporter, has held a season ticket since the late 80’s and hasn’t missed a game home or away for nearly a decade. He cites ‘that’ game against Wimbledon along with Duncan’s 1-0 victory against Manchester United as his favourites for clearly differing reasons. Going back through the ages he regards The Golden Vision as his favourite player, as his style of play was a sight to behold. Besides writing for FollowEverton, Karl works as a business consultant – but only when Everton haven’t got a game.
See Karl’s story Archive >> Email Karl: karl[at]followeverton.com
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Ian Phillips - Forum Moderation
Ian was born a blue and has been his whole life despite living in East Anglia with no connections to the city of Liverpool. Ian tries to make it to as many matches as possible and the most memorable for him were the
2-1 victory against Charlton in 2007, the 3-1 against Larissa in October 2007 and the 4-0 win over Crystal Palace at Goodison in April 2005, where James Vaughan became the youngest ever Premier League goalscorer. Ian is a student and also a shareholder in Ebbsfleet United Football Club. Ian likes to join in with the discussion in the FE Forums.
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Lebanese_Toffee - Writing
Lebanese_Toffee has an enormous enthusiasm toward Everton, living on another continent did not stop him from following every single details about the blues, in fact he is well known over the internet for his news updates from English and foreign media.
Lebanese will start writing for us soon >> Email Lebanese Toffee: it[at]followeverton.com
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Mikey Symington - Writing
Mikey is a proud Lower Gwladys season ticket holder who is now in his 3rd season as an Everton ST holder. Despite the best efforts of his Liverpudlian father, he was entranced by the Everton spell, and now couldn’t imagine not going to the match week in, week out (and swearing a little too much whilst there). Without a doubt his greatest experience at Goodison was witnessing the Fiorentina UEFA cup game in the 2007-08 season from the Lower Gwladys - despite the eventual loss the atmosphere was extraordinary. He hopes to see Everton win something (anything!) in the near future. His FE Forums username is The Sandman.
See Mikey’s story Archive >> Email Mikey: mikey[at]followeverton.com
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