It’s said that the darkest hour is just before dawn and Everton currently find themselves in a paradoxical situation of short term peril while maintaining long term hope under Frank Lampard.
It’s still less than a month since Lampard first walked through the entrance door at Finch Farm – on transfer deadline day no less – but he and his staff have been a breath of fresh air at Everton ever since.
Although a Londoner who spent the majority of his playing career in the capital, winning multiple honours with Chelsea – including scoring the winner against Everton in the club’s last cup final in 2009 – might at first glance have appeared to be an unlikely unifying force at what just prior to his arrival was a deeply fractured Goodison Park, the 43-year-old now has everyone connected with the Blues, both on and off the pitch, pulling in the same direction.
