Long before he was sacked, a criticism of Ronald Koeman at Everton was that he seemed to regard the club as a stepping stone.
“He called us Everton, he never called us ‘us’,” former Blues skipper Kevin Ratcliffe once remarked. And he was right, the former Barcelona star didn’t.
While the man who replaced Koeman never had the backing of supporters. The reaction to Sam Allardyce’s sacking told people exactly what they needed to know.
