Reliance on Rooney becoming unhealthy

LET us look forward, not back, dear reader. And that’s not just to avoid discussing Goodison. (Which is easily summed up: an ongoing makeshift defence; a Rooney off-day; the post-Milan hangover. Move on.)

I’m writing before the West Ham game, the result of which no-one is taking for granted, given the madcap, defeat-heavy nature of this increasingly marvellous 1975-revivalist season.

But we have a final this weekend, and we may thus put aside the concerns for a moment to revel in the anticipation of An Event. Even if it’s ‘only’ the League Cup.