After a lot of noise about a missed deadline, Everton’s hierarchy has, in effect, created a new one.
Whatever this tumultuous summer has in store, it needs to be resolved by the beginning of the new season. Everton cannot start the next campaign how it ended the last. The Blues may have survived a second consecutive relegation scare but it remained a club in crisis even after the final whistle blew to signal Abdoulaye Doucoure’s goal had been enough to overcome Bournemouth and, as a result, consign Southampton, Leeds United and Leicester City to the Championship.
At a sold out Goodison Park there were four empty seats in the most privileged position of all. Those spaces for the board of directors had been empty for four months by then, last filled for the sorry collapse to Brighton & Hove Albion that effectively ended Frank Lampard’s reign.
