The Fiver | Wings constructed of wax, feathers and an out-of-sorts Richarlison

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So farewell to Watford then, Marco Silva. A modern-day Icarus, who ignored warnings of hubris by flying a little too close to the sun – well, Everton, who for the purposes of this laboured Fiver analogy will have to serve as a kind of slightly less shiny sun understudy – he plummeted in ignominious fashion when his metaphorical wings constructed of wax, feathers and a curiously out-of-sorts Richarlison melted, fell apart and could secure no more than five points from the past 24 available since the man in charge of them had his head turned by the Goodison Park recruitment department.

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