Or dominantFour years ago, at a time when Everton were neither hiring nor firing, a banner starting cropping up at their games. “The School of Science: Re-opened 6th June 2013”, it read, the date corresponding to Roberto Martinez’s appointment as manager. When David Moyes became Everton manager in 2002 he referred to a listing ship as “the people’s club on Merseyside”. Moyes went on to keep Everton punching high, finishing in the top six five times, and performing marginally better than their relative level of resource. The problem for Koeman, in the end, was that the old ardor had been dulled and the science had gone bad.

Source: The Guardian October 27, 2017 08:26 UTC