With Sean Dyche closing in on the Everton manager’s job, what he said about the Blues players when last facing them just nine months ago presents a significant issue.
Even Henry VIII never made it to a seventh choice, but with Farhad Moshiri having chopped and changed his way through six managers in as many years at Everton, he now looks set to turn to Dyche, a man whose image mocked up as the 16th century tyrant king still adorns the sign of a pub in Burnley.
Curiously, Dyche, of course, was the man who for the majority of last season, was doing his utmost to send the Blues down, given that with Norwich City and Watford both looking doomed, he was manager of their main relegation rivals Burnley. The Clarets spurned numerous opportunities throughout the campaign to dump Frank Lampard’s side into the drop zone, but when they came from behind late on to defeat them 3-2 in dramatic fashion at Turf Moor on April 6, in a fixture originally planned for Boxing Day when Rafael Benitez was still in charge but postponed due to Covid cases, the tide appeared to be turning, leaving many Evertonians with an impending sense of doom.
