Perhaps the first thing the new manager should be looking to change on his return to Everton is his surname: doesn’t David Moyes need to be David Copperfield?
Plenty were hoping chapter two of this particular relationship would begin as the first did in March 2002 and, on this emotional night, there were some nods to the past: Moyes, for instance, went out to oversee the warm-up, as he did against Fulham 23 years ago.
He had the Midas touch immediately, David Unsworth scoring after 27 seconds and lighting the fuse on a reign that would last 518 matches.