While thousands of beleaguered Blues watched the nerve-racking final moments of relegation rivals Leicester City’s game at Newcastle United through their fingers or maybe even behind their couch, Dwight McNeil snubbed the Premier League action to re-watch a lockdown television favourite.
Instead of holding his breath alongside the masses while Nick Pope kept out Timothy Castagne’s stoppage time volley – an effort that almost caused a stunning smash-and-grab win for the Foxes that would have left Sean Dyche’s side back in the drop zone and struggling to find a way out with their inferior goal difference – the winger was taking in archive footage of basketball superstar Michael Jordan’s exploits but he must now hope that Sunday doesn’t bring ‘The Last Dance’ for Everton in the Premier League after 69 years of continuous top flight football.
Asked whether he tuned in to view the matches at the London Stadium and St James’ Park to see whether Everton’s fate would remain in their own hands going into their final fixture of the season at home to Bournemouth, McNeil said: “I didn’t watch any of the Leeds game. I was out with my missus for the afternoon.
