LUCKY SEVENS?
As WS Gilbert might have it, an Everton fan’s lot is not a happy one. Give or take Paul Rideout’s Wembley winner in 1995, and the teenage rampage of Wayne Rooney during David Moyes’s flinty “People’s Club” era, the gruel has been thinning since Howard Kendall decamped to Bilbao after winning his second league title in 1987. Everton’s problem then, as now, was money. Though, with a new stadium halfway built, cash is currently a far, far bigger problem. Farhad Moshiri has been majority owner and benefactor since 2016, but since his associate, Alisher Usmanov, was sanctioned for close relations with Vladimir Putin, Everton have been looking for further investment – and fast. Sean Dyche, the seventh manager under Moshiri, rescued the club from relegation last season but an underpowered squad has started this season as if another relegation battle will surely ensue.
