The dramatic 3-2 win over Watford eight years ago today was one of the great Everton comebacks and it was inspired by one of the great Blues fighters who refused to give up.

With Beto and Thierno Barry both struggling to score, and the latter who is yet to break his duck, missing a sitter at Sunderland on Monday night, Everton are still looking to find a worthy successor to Romelu Lukaku who departed Goodison Park for Manchester United in the summer of 2017. A short-term failure to do that – after seeing Olivier Giroud slip through his fingers after he had him “in the building” – contributed to Ronald Koeman losing his job as Blues boss but his departure offered a fresh start for Oumar Niasse, who had been frozen out under the Dutchman and infamously had his locker taken off him.

On November 5, 2017, Niasse helped turn the tide in a...