Everton 2-0 Liverpool. November 21st 1994 – There’s a – surely apocryphal – story about the Oxford University entrance interview. A particularly cantankerous old professor decides to slowly creak open his newspaper in front of a fidgeting interviewee. The boy gets up and sets fire to the newspaper. Delighted that the youngster has shown such bold-faced initiative, the professor leaps up and shouts “You’re in!” After fourteen games, Everton still had just nine points, and this miserable statistic ensured that Mike Walker was shown the door. The new manager was Everton legend Joe Royle and his first game was against Liverpool. His blues were a side reborn, with strike...
