Everton have confirmed Sean Dyche as their manager and have Conor Gallagher and the Rennes winger Kamaldeen Sulemana among their transfer targets
Bill Sweeney has apologised for the Rugby Football Union tackle law fiasco that has left him fighting for his job but has insisted it had no choice but to make the game safer.
And so it came to pass that logic trumped romance and Sean Dyche, not Marcelo Bielsa, was today confirmed as the man entrusted with keeping Everton in the Premier League.