Everton: 3 things Duncan Ferguson can bring to Everton

Duncan Ferguson is one of the most passionate guys out there ar Everton

Passion

There is an image burnt deeply into anybody who loves Everton. It’s Duncan Ferguson running down the touchline and hugging ball boys after Everton scored the second and third time against Chelsea in a 3-1 victory.

He first ran towards the Street End to hug a ball boy after Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s first goal of the match. With score 2-1 and Chelsea looking like they would get back into the match, Calvert-Lewin struck again after some battling work by Tom Davies in the Chelsea box. The Scot sought out another ball boy and again, lifted him up in an embrace. Both ball boys were grinning ear-to-ear.

That was passion distilled into less than 30 seconds of memory. But, what passion!

After some miserable outings under then-manager Marco Silva, including a lacklustre, embarrassing 5-2 loss in the Merseyside Derby. That sealed Silva’s fate and Ferguson was tabbed as the caretaker. After the Chelsea win, the next three matches were drawn.

Ferguson’s passion was infectious and it seemed to inhabit every player as they ran non-stop and harried Chelsea, got in front of shots and Richarlison’s first goal, a powerful header from a Djibril Sidibe cross had the look of a trademark Ferguson goal. Everton played with a fire that had been sadly absent.

After the match, Andy Hunter quoted Ferguson in The Observer:

"It is just emotion, just such adrenaline. When you see the kids’ faces, I think one of them was in tears and I was in tears to be honest. It was one game and no one can ever take it away from me, can they? But the players were unbelievable and it is their day."

In the same article, Hunter wrote Ferguson had turned Goodison Park into a frenzied bearpit. Hunter’s line also illustrates something else Ferguson has.