When will Everton party like it’s 1999?
It was this corresponding weekend back in 1999 that Kevin Campbell started on his prolific spree of nine goals in five games that saved Everton from the drop. But who is going to step forward to prevent what would be the club’s first relegation for 72 years this time around?
Later that year, after the striker Blues fans dubbed ‘Super Kev’ had netted what remains the club’s last Merseyside Derby winner at Anfield in front of fans, he was dubbed “a man mountain” by Steven Gerrard after a chance encounter with the then teenage midfielder in the gents at a Mersey waterfront restaurant and, in terms of sheer physicality, Amadou Onana is the closest thing this current Everton side possesses. But while Campbell was a senior pro of some 29 years of age when he came to Goodison Park, Onana for all his precocious promise remains very much a rookie in the Premier League and that showed here at Old Trafford, the biggest stage of all in club football’s toughest division.
