Moyes is making the Blues feel right at HOME

BOSS CALMLY OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES OF CLUB UPHEAVAL

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UST as Rome wasn't built in a day, so Everton’s brand-new dawn by the banks of the Mersey is not going to restore the club to the top of the football tree overnight.

But the fact is - as pointed out online by EFC Statto - after beating Fulham 2-0, Everton have taken 11 Premier League games to reach four wins this season, some 10 fewer than last term.

And that elusive fourth victory only arrived on January 19 after David Moyes returned to the club.

In the upturn in form that followed, there were a further five away wins for a team that had triumphed just once on the road over the previous 12 months - at Ipswich Town, who went straight back down to the Championship after back-to-back promotions - with the Blues, who had been just one point above the relegation zone with a meagre 17 points from 19 matches when Moyes came back in, securing their Premier League status with five matches left to play.

After making a bold decision to make a change just three weeks after their takeover was complete, ambitious new owners The Friedkin Group had brought back a manager who understood the workings of the club as well as anyone in the business at what was a pivotal moment in Everton’s history.

Moyes is the man that - ahead of another home win over Fulham when he first started some 23-and-a-half years ago - dubbed Everton 'The People’s Club', a tag that Goodison Park patrons embraced.

He oversaw the Blues’ most consistent period of the Premier League era, guiding an ailing outfit that had finished in the top half just once in the first decade of the competition to no fewer than nine top eight-placings, including fourth in 2004/05, which more than two decades on remains their highest-ever position since English top flight football was rebranded.