The general rule of Everton managers is that each is the antithesis of his predecessor. But in a surreal week when events have unravelled at remarkable speed, Everton contrived to veer between complete opposites on a shortlist in a matter of hours. First Marcelo Bielsa was due to replace Frank Lampard. Instead Sean Dyche will.
From the ultimate idealist to the byword from pragmatism, from the ambition of exciting football to an acceptance they will take drudgery if it will save them: that is Everton. Farhad Moshiri has made Goodison Park the home of incoherent thinking: if Dyche proves the right man for one of the most troubled times in their history, they have got there by the wrong way.
