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Reporter Notebook: Everton and its fans have shown they’re not for moving – but new owners have huge job on their hands
Reporter Alan Myers explains why Everton’s struggles are far from over despite relegation from the Premier League being avoided; the ownership issue needs to be resolved
Everton will play in the top flight of English football for a 71st consecutive season next August.
That, despite overcoming historical circumstances, with two separate points deductions and subsequent appeal processes, a long drawn out proposed takeover and the death of a chairman leading to an interim board running the club.
Quite the achievement considering all of that and one in which a number of people will come out the other side with much credit but also with many, many questions remaining.
Manager Sean Dyche should rightly receive plaudits for keeping a relative calm at the club while many were losing their heads all around him, he has had challenges which no other Everton manager, at least in modern times, have had to endure.