Anthony Gordon message heard loud and clear as Everton finally get what they deserve
Everton are out of the relegation zone less than one month after being hit with the most severe points deduction in top flight history.
They are above the dotted line after a story of missed chances and frustration became one of utter ruthlessness and immense joy on a memorable night under the lights at the Grand Old Lady. It started when Dwight McNeil, who can claim several of the biggest goals in his club’s modern past, scored another of huge importance as he snatched the ball from Kieran Trippier and then thumped it past Martin Dubravka. Abdoulaye Doucoure, who has written his own name in the club’s prestigious history books, added a second before Beto then finished a hugely satisfying job for a club angered by its treatment off the pitch in recent weeks.
They were goals that sent a sold-out Goodison into wild celebration as a fanbase that had begun the night protesting ended it by cheering their side out of the bottom three even with the anchor of a 10-point asterisk next to its points tally.
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This was a night in which the cries of 40,000 moved away from frustrated protest to taunts towards Anthony Gordon, who left his boyhood club for Newcastle United in January and cut an increasingly frustrated figure as his team was engulfed by a Blue tide, and the pertinent: “We shall not be moved.”
That these scenes came against the team responsible for one of Sean Dyche’s worst moments as Everton boss, when they humiliated the Blues here in April, only made the party in the stands even sweeter.
For so long this match threatened to be a repeat of the same old story in L4 this
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