Tick. Tock.
Craig Shakespeare is gone, Frank de Boer is gone, Slaven Bilic is on the way and Father Time is on the road to Ronald Koeman.
The teams in the current relegation scrap are systematically getting rid of their managers, and while it is never our way to be sheep rather than the shepherd, we must follow the flock and act as they do.
But we have a French Giant on the horizon at the moment, so managerial issues take the back-burner for this one. Lyon are a massive team, and as my mantra has been for the last few weeks, they have decent footballing ability, Everton’s kryptonite.
We need a massive shake-up of the team if we even want to think about touching Lyon on Thursday, and not to bring everyone down, but I can’t see Koeman having a change of heart now.
But, on the off chance that the steely Dutchman is feeling a bit like a changed man this week, I’d urge him to look no further than my immense tactical nous.
