Larry Ryan: Successful transplant sets The Panel free

Early in Wednesday night’s Premier Sports broadcast, Eamon Dunphy settled on a key fact to underline the crisis facing a proud club. He’d repeat it several times throughout the evening: “Everton have never been relegated.”

It is not true, of course. Everton have been relegated twice, the last time in 1951. But it is nearly true. And Eamo has always served as an antidote to the fake news movement, insofar as he uses a customised version of the facts to tell the truth rather than to distort it.