Everton star has new nickname and everyone is Finch Farm is talking about it

Everton have been called ‘The School of Science’ but what about ‘The School of Art’?

Everyone at Finch Farm seems to be talking about “getting the paintbrush out” but what do they mean? When speaking to the ECHO after Everton’s 1-0 win at Nottingham Forest, goalkeeper Jordan Pickford said: “Dwight has got the paintbrush out for the goal.”

When being interviewed by Sky Sports, match-winner McNeil, whose 67^th minute strike was his first this term, used the reference himself. Back in the studio, Jamie Redknapp said: “You’ve massively underplayed that goal. Come on, you’re going to be getting home, watching that goal over and over again.

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“I’ve seen you score some good ones but that was as pure a strike as it comes. The way you just hit it, you kept your balance.

“You’d had a great effort in the first half that Murillo saved off the line, as that fell to you, what’s going through your mind? It felt that you almost took that moment in slow motion to compose yourself and balance yourself to hit a really lovely strike.”

McNeil replied: “Yeah, like you say, it’s all about the composure. Me and a few of the other lads a little bit of banter in training ground about when it falls like that and we call it ‘the paintbrush.’

“So the lads are buzzing about that for me. It was a good finish and I’m happy to help the team with three points and in the position I play in, I want to score more goals and impact more games because I want to get better as a player.”

Given that McNeil finished Everton’s top scorer last season with seven goals, five of which came under Sean Dyche