Football managers usually don’t like to over-emphasise the importance of individual fixtures but despite Sean Dyche claiming before this one that all games in the Premier League are “must-win” and this clash against Leeds United wouldn’t necessarily define Everton’s season, over 39,000 inside Goodison Park felt differently.
While he makes certain declarations in public, you suspect behind closed doors that Blues boss Dyche surely thinks along similar lines to the rest of us because this was, and was always going to be, huge.
With his fabled £60,000 transfer fee from Sligo Rovers in 2009, Everton captain Seamus Coleman is already arguably the biggest pound-for-pound bargain in Premier League history but what price could you put the price of top flight survival if this most audacious of strikes from a tight angle saves the Blues on a first relegation in 72 years?
