Tottenham Hotspur was the beginning of the change, in my opinion. By the time Ange Postecoglou’s side visited Goodison Park in mid-January, Everton had already started to become a different club.

The Friedkin Group had completed their takeover just weeks earlier. What we now know as Hill Dickinson Stadium was handed over to them days later.

And David Moyes had returned to steward the club through another period of turbulence. The mission was to ensure survival but the Scot set his heights higher than that and quickly set about taking the Blues up the table.

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That began with Spurs. His first game was not the fairytale under the lights we hoped for as Aston Villa snuck away from L4 with a narrow 1-0 win but the following weekend it felt like players and supporters had had the time to warm up for the second era of Moyes.

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