When the World Cup finished last Sunday, and club football was on its way back, there was a sense of excitement in getting the season kickstarted again. But then I just had that niggly feeling because the Wolves game was getting closer and seemed to get bigger and bigger and bigger.
The nervousness and the anxiety grew in the build-up and I was thinking ‘wow, this is a huge game’. You then see the line-up and you don't see Dominic Calvert-Lewin, I was just thinking ‘where are we going to score goals? How are we going to score goals?’
I think the crowd was sensitive yesterday. We did our bit last year. The crowd constantly turned up and got the players to start showing us something. Boxing Day normally, Goodison Park is rocking, but yesterday it was a very subdued atmosphere.
