"The philosophy of thinking finishing tenth was OK, started the slide."
The quote from Everton legend Neville Southall was written in bold, white letters on the backdrop of a blue banner held up in the away end. What Everton would give to be tenth right now.
Instead they languish near the bottom of the Premier League table after a miserable 2-0 defeat at West Ham United that was watched, unlike the loss to Southampton seven days earlier, by board members including chairman Bill Kenwright, chief executive Denise Barrett-Baxendale and non-executive director Graeme Sharp.
