OMENS GOOD AT GOODISON
EVERTON fans can be forgiven for getting a little bit excited with their team top of the Premier League and boasting the only remaining 100 per cent record.
Yet there is another omen that should get them dreaming just that little bit harder, which comes after the 7-2 humiliation suffered by their bitter rivals Liverpool at Aston Villa.
Everton supporters were able to joke about reporting their neighbours to the authorities for breaking the Covid rules by letting in more than six, but there is a bigger reason to smile.
The last time Liverpool lost 7-2 was way back in 1963 (against Tottenham, below), in a remarkable season which saw Everton crowned champions.
The omens do not stop there either. That season, Everton also won their first four matches to go top of the table and they eventually won the league at a canter under the stewardship of Harry
Catterick and the cultured creativity of Scottish international Alex Young.
No less a judge than Everton chairman Bill Kenwright has compared the relaxed quality of current star James Rodriguez to Young, one of the all-time Goodison Park greats and known to fans as The Golden Vision.
They also had the goalscoring prowess of Roy Vernon who, like Dominic Calvert-Lewin, started the season with a bang by scoring five in the first four games.
He scored in each of those four matches as Everton stormed to the top of the league.
Calvert-Lewin has actually gone one better this season with six in his first four games, and manager Carlo Ancelotti will be hoping he can repeat the feats of Vernon, who scored 21 goals in total in Everton’s title-winning season.
Liverpool finished eighth that year but they did bounce back in style by winning the league the next season, with Everton only finishing third.