After a week of chaos and instability it seems that some form of common sense has prevailed at Everton. Hopefully stability will follow.
The news cycle around the club has been non-stop during an exhausting week for everyone associated with the club. The first major event - the dismissal of Frank Lampard - came as little shock. His departure had felt inevitable from the final whistle of the 2-0 defeat to West Ham United, a game in which majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri watched Lampard in the dugout for the first time.
One win in 14 and with defeats at Goodison Park and against so many rivals in the lower reaches of the table made Lampard's position untenable. He was a good person, a pleasure to deal with and deserves huge credit for his work to galvanise the fanbase and help keep Everton in the Premier League last season. It is telling that despite the wretched run of results, supporters did not turn on him. But while his reign was undermined by the problems he inherited, it was hard to see where he and Everton went after that defeat at the London Stadium.
