They even won one of those matches, against a team who contrived to throw away a two-goal lead. Naturally, the manager of the beaten team is the one person whom Everton are known to have approached about the vacant managerial position at Goodison Park. There are, you see, quite a lot of vacancies at Everton at the moment, as the club effectively wanders the Premier League streets with no clothes on, insisting they are not stark naked, merely “between outfits”. Watford have told Everton that Silva is going nowhere so they can sodding well go elsewhere. Marco Silva is a prize steak being tossed from one hungry pair of jaws to the next, reckons Barney Ronay.

Source: The Guardian November 23, 2017 15:56 UTC