Published: 17:00, 6 October 2025 | Updated: 17:00, 6 October 2025

Jack Grealish for England. So read Everton’s X bio mere moments after their on-loan hero netted a dramatic late winner to end Crystal Palace’s 18-game unbeaten streak.

It’s been nearly a year since Grealish last pulled on a Three Lions shirt and it will be longer still, with the winger’s name missing again from Thomas Tuchel’s squad for England’s matches against Wales and Latvia this week.

But there’s a World Cup coming up and there’s chap with a ponytail who wants to have his say.

Grealish is influencing games again. He’s bringing fans to their feet again. He’s driving at defences, he’s creating chances, he’s doing all those things that thrilled England supporters and made them clamour for him at the Euros four years ago.

Grealish is playing like a free man again, unshackled from Pep Guardiola’s regimented structure and, in David Moyes, has found a manager who wants him to be Jack Grealish again. Take risks, take on your man. He’s playing like a main man again, too.

Everything goes through Grealish....