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THE flowering of Jordan Ayew as a Swansea saviour continued as Everton fans told Sam Allardyce where to go and tend to his roses.

Ayew scored a superb and desperately required equaliser for Carlos Carvalhal’s side, repaying the faith of a manager who had called the Ghanaian a “beautiful flower” earlier in the week.

The 71st-minute strike flew past a startled Jordan Pickford and highlighted a talent in full bloom – but produced a bouquet of thorns for Allardyce.

Everton fans might have forgiven their boss for a display best hidden by tall weeds, but the leveller brought all their seething frustrations above the topsoil.

“F**k Off, Sam Allardyce,” they chanted after Big Sam took off striker Yannick Bolasie and replaced him with defender Ramiro Funes Mori. That came after the same away section had sang, “We’re sh** and we’re one-nil up” at half-time. Both were not wrong.

Asked whether he was annoyed by the reactions, Allardyce said: “I never get annoyed by the fans, personally, as they wanted to see us play better.

“But you have to give some credit to the opposition – they don’t let you play better when their fighting away for points. In the end we’ve got a very precious point. Yes, we’d have all liked to play better but there’s a big problem with our away results, and in the last two away games we’ve tried to put it right.”

Everton had taken the lead through a laughable own-goal by Kyle Naughton two minutes before the break, but should have been at least 3-0 down by that point.

The second half was almost as one-sided with Swansea substitute Tammy Abraham missing a sitter by blasting over from eight yards, although Seamus Coleman might even have snatched a winner for Everton if his shot had not clattered off the bar.

It completed a strange