Absentee landlords
Moments after thousands of Evertonians poured onto the Goodison Park pitch on the final whistle, the mood in the stadium turned from relief to anger with chants of 'sack the board'.
Everton, who have proudly played a record 120 seasons of top flight football, some 11 more than their nearest rivals Aston Villa and the only founder members of both the Football League in 1888 and Premier League in 1992 to be ever-presents in the latter, had come within a hair’s breadth of dropping down into the second tier of the English game for the first time since 1951 when King Charles III’s grandfather George VI was still on the throne.
