When David Moyes set off on his commute home yesterday, he was greeted by the scene of hundreds of fans lining the country road out of their Finch Farm training base.
The sun helped, of course, as did the fact the schools are on holidays – but this was the busiest the lane has been for some years and it painted a perfect picture of David Moyes’s Everton 2.0.
A happy place. A building populated by smiley faces. A squad of players who are once again the subject of autograph and selfie hunters rather than angry fans wanting to scapegoat them for sub-par performances.