Evergreen Everton captain Seamus Coleman showed there’s still plenty of miles left on the clock for him as a top flight player as he came in from the cold to lead by example in what was only the Blues’ second Premier League away win in 13 months at Southampton.
Coleman – who celebrates his 34th birthday next week – hadn’t turned out in the competition for 136 days since an even more dramatic comeback victory against Crystal Palace that ensured the club avoided what would have been a first relegation in 71 years, but he typically took to the turf at St Mary’s like he hadn’t been away.
Following the aforementioned success against the Eagles in what was the Blues’ final home game of the 2021/22 season, manager Frank Lampard made an impassioned speech to his players in the dressing room in which he described Coleman as “the greatest man he’d ever met” and the club’s official statistician Gavin Buckland worked out that the Republic of Ireland international’s return in Hampshire ensured he became the first Everton player since John Heitinga in December 2012 to play in consecutive Premier League comeback wins.
