Will April prove the cruellest month for Everton? No-one can be quite sure but even though it has not started brilliantly for Sean Dyche’s team they at least managed to defy the doom mongers by fighting back to salvage an unlikely point on a chilly Tyneside.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s first goal since October, an 88th-minute penalty, admittedly failed to prevent Everton from extending their winless Premier League game to 13 games yet it could come to be seen as a psychological watershed.
