The Halls are ALIVE

Earlier this month, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall revealed that away from football, a love for musical theatre was his “guilty pleasure.”

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Those who aren't fans of the genre will often deride it for its lack of realism, you could say the same about the circumstances behind this Everton win, but then sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

The Blues midfielder also refused to rule out treading the boards himself - after he hangs up his boots - but for now, he reveled in his part as leading man in those most unlikely of productions that even that late chairman and performing arts titan Bill Kenwright would have struggled to dream up. But this was no glitzy greasepaint and sequins production, but a gritty thriller, played against the soundtrack of jubilant Evertonians who celebrated wildly as Dewsbury-Hall performed a knee-slide in front of them after planting the ball into Senne Lammens' net.

Although the summer signing from Chelsea had netted a smart goal in the 3-2 win at Wolves back on August 30, he has acknowledged that, playing in his number 10 role, he needs to be scoring more and this was the kind of run and finish he'd been threatening to pull off ever since his impressive debut against Roma in Everton's final preseason friendly.

In the aforementioned interview, Dewsbury-Hall also remarked about the Blues’ supporters: “I see how passionate they are and how much they want to win, and it just resonates with me because that's how I live my life. I'm not saying that the other clubs weren't like that, but I just feel like Everton's on a different level.”

Those passions have just been taken up a notch.

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