At half-time he was pulled down the tunnel to end a heated touchline row. In the second half he produced magic. At the final whistle he was fist pumping to the Gwladys Street crowd. As Everton needed its club captain, Seamus Coleman delivered once again.
"You talk about legends of football clubs and he is certainly one of those.”
When Frank Lampard described Coleman as one of the best people he had ever met, then later added those words as his tribute continued, it was clear he meant them. But as they were said in the aftermath of Everton's great escape neither would have thought that, nine months later, Lampard would be gone and Coleman would be carrying the weight of another crisis on his shoulders.
