Very sad news about Howard Kendall. The media are describing him as Everton's greatest ever manager, but he was definitely was one of ours too. It's difficult to put into words what he did - to some extent you had to have been there. After relegation in 1978-79, the club was at its lowest ebb in it's history - yes even lower than the more recent troubles! The club had been relegated from the old division 2 and it was a miracle that the money had been found to pay the players wages to get through the season. The shoestring that the club was run on was very thin........then Howard Kendall became manager and the 1979-80 season was a season of miracles. How did he manage to cobble a team together with so little money that performed so fantastically???? It was a season of dreams. Remember Andy Crawford scoring all those goals? Howard got the best out of him and the others. We were rewarded with promotion in 1980, and then lost out by the narrowest of goal difference in 1981 (on promotion to the old division 1). I was gutted when he was poached by Everton, but to be fair to Howard he had already stuck by us and rejected other top flight clubs. It's a mystery to me why he never became the England Manager. We need someone like Howard to manage us now, but he was a complete one off, and they just don't make them like Howard any more.