Perhaps Farhad Moshiri thought that turning up to watch his team in the flesh for the first time since October 2021 would inspire Everton. Or maybe he just wanted to set his expert gaze over proceedings and judge for himself where Frank Lampard’s team are going wrong.
Either way Everton have spiralled out of control under Moshiri’s abysmal ownership and, for all that the immediate blame for yet another sorry defeat will fall at Lampard’s feet, anyone with any perspective will know that a change of manager is not all it will take to halt this damaged club’s decline.