EPL: Everton 4-0 West Ham

Thank you for your input!

I actually think it will be the other way round.  Big Sam will have a really rocky December, I haven't looked at their fixtures yet, but I'm thinking 3 or 4 defeats, then he'll start to turn the ship round in January (that's if he hasn't lost the fans, the board and the players by then).

Thing is, if it was just a good motivational talk Everton needed, or a rocket up their arse, then Unsworth surely could have done that by now and you would have seen some kind of reaction.  Their problems lie deeper than that.

Big Sam has got a great eye for detail, like Mourinho, he's a pragmatist, but it will take him 5 to 6 weeks to get that team defensively well drilled.  It doesn't just happen overnight, it happens on the training ground.  Then from there he has a basis to build on.  But until that is sorted, I think it is still gonna be a rough few weeks.

That said though, I did have Everton down for the win before I even knew about Big Sam, because it is easy to forget today, West Ham are in the shit as well with dreadful form.

1-1 would have been my second choice prediction (after a slim Everton win).

But when two shits collide, often hard to know which shit will emerge most shittest.

Joe Hart saves Rooney's penalty, the ball sits up nicely for Rooney to nod it past the helpless Hart.

1-0 Everton