The Boreham Wood players took the field for the biggest game in their history each carrying a Ukraine flag. The fans who had travelled from Hertfordshire packed the corner of a ground that dates back to the 19th century, but which had undergone a sudden makeover.
The Megafon branding, a recent addition that used to be visible on the Stanley Park skyline, was hastily removed. Megafon is an Alisher Usmanov company and Everton’s week was about distancing themselves from a billionaire sanctioned by the European Union, the United States and the United Kingdom as about reaching the FA Cup quarter-finals.
