Everton’s season of misery hit a new low as they suffered a 2-0 defeat to a West Ham United side who had also been waiting since mid-October for a Premier League win and – unlike seven days earlier against Southampton – their board of directors watched on en masse alongside Farhad Moshiri.
The Blues’ under-fire Monaco-based owner has not attended a match at Goodison Park for 15 months but this game provided him with a close-up view of just how bad a team he has spent over half a billion pounds on assembling has become and will beg the question whether, despite the recent public backing of his sixth managerial appointment in as many years, he will now make another change.
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