On retro shirt day at Goodison Park, there was something of a throwback about the inspiration behind Everton’s crucial victory over a bedazzled Tottenham Hotspur.
Erling Haaland’s goalscoring exploits brought the need for an out-and-out No 9 back to the fore on our shores in recent years, but the style with which the Norwegian goalscoring phenom goes about his business is very much a modern take on the traditional centre-forward.
