After hiring and firing an ex-Liverpool manager, you’d have thought that Farhad Moshiri’s task was clear in identifying a replacement for Everton – find someone who the supporters can get behind.
A browbeaten fanbase had to swallow a big dollop of bad-tasting ‘medicine’ (and their pride) with the most-controversial appointment in the history of England’s most-passionate football city in the shape of former Kop Idol, Rafael Benitez.
They were told that this was necessary to cure their under-achieving team of their numerous ills, that – despite his glory days now being long in the past – the 61-year-old was still the best man for the job and with lectures from their neighbours across Stanley Park, they were somehow fortunate that a great manager like ‘Rafa the gaffer’ had lowered himself to take charge of an outfit he’d once petulantly dubbed a “small club.”
