Paul Quinn

Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues. After another terrible result (and performance) we get together to try and make some sense of the inconsistencies befalling Everton at present. With Andy and George Costigan. https://theesk.org/wp-content/uploads/... See more

The Independent Football Regulator has published its response to the their consultation on the new Owners, Directors and Senior Executives regime (ODSE). The regime sets clear standards for those who own and lead clubs, ensuring they meet the required lev... See more

Welcome to the post Nottingham Forest (a) Talking the Blues podcast with George and Andy Costigan. Simply, unbridled joy, and now expectation! https://theesk.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ttb31122025e.mp3 Thanks to everyone for listening through 2025 – w... See more

Financial regulation in English professional football has evolved from a Victorian-era ethos of community custodianship to a system defined by global capital markets, private equity, and institutional shareholder supremacy. At the beginning of this transf... See more

The financial regulation of European professional football has evolved from a nascent, disparate collection of national bookkeeping rules into a more sophisticated, multi-layered architecture of economic control. This transformation has been driven by a g... See more