The car crash Tottenham Hotspur are hurtling into is one Everton supporters know all too well. A talented squad, wracked by injury and undermined by instability off-the-pitch, is buckling under the pressure on it and, all of a sudden, the momentum is only taking the team in one direction.

That the club might be ‘too big’ or the team ‘too good’ to go down are arguments that will not hold much water in the coming weeks. Spurs will have to save themselves if they are to avoid a final day reckoning when Everton visit north London for what could be a game of epic consequences.

The Blues, of course, have had too many of those in recent years - twice the battle for survival required wins in the final week of the season. Thank goodness those days are over.

Everton made it through those dark moments...