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The last time Everton came to the London Stadium their manager was on the brink - but this time the Blues nailed the Hammers in front of both Farhad Moshiri and prospective new owner Josh Wander of 777 Partners.

This was a resolute display from the visitors who produced a performance filled with the type of determination Sean Dyche declared they had been showing all week in training after the sense of injustice from the referee that prevailed following their Merseyside Derby defeat at Anfield. However, this was far from a smash-and-grab victory as the difference between the sides was a strike of supreme quality as Dominic Calvert-Lewin grabbed his 50^thPremier League goal for the club.

Back when these sides met in the corresponding fixture last season on January 21, Everton’s majority shareholder Moshiri, who has still not been back to Goodison Park since the 5-2 capitulation against Watford under Rafael Benitez, now over two years ago on October 23, 2021, was joined en masse by the club’s board of directors who had stayed away from the Southampton home game the previous weekend on security advice. Chief executive Denise Barrett-Baxendale, Graeme Sharp and the late chairman Bill Kenwright were all here for what proved to be the final act of Frank Lampard’s tenure.

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Interviewed by Sky Sports from within the bowels of the stadium, Moshiri bizarrely claimed that the manager’s future was “not my decision” while when Kenwright was asked if it was the end for the Blues boss, he replied: “I would never tell you that.” Off the field that day, West Ham saluted their own home-grown