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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Richard Jolly

Everton finally have reason for optimism after failures, financial peril and a manager the fans don’t want

Singing the Blues: amid tone-deaf rhetoric and dismal football, Everton have failed to score in four of their last five games - (Getty)

The end is nigh. After 130 years, Saturday will see the final Merseyside derby at Goodison Park. After eight, it should be the last of Farhad Moshiri’s ownership, even if he is unlikely to be there to see it. It may well prove the last of Sean Dyche’s reign, too.

Wednesday’s walloping of Wolves gives Everton a distinctly unDychean pair of scorelines in the last week – 0-4, 4-0 – but leaves them five points clear of the relegation zone. After perhaps the most fraught period in their history, there is light at the end of the (Mersey) tunnel; or, more accurately, on the Liverpool waterfront.

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