Everton now have their Tarkowski moment just as Liverpool have Jerzy Dudek and Manchester United have Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Manchester City have Sergio Aguero and Paul Dickov and Arsenal have Michael Thomas and West Ham have Jarrod Bowen and Carlisle have Jimmy Glass (you may have to look that one up).
The truth is that the stuff that really mattered came and went in the time it took a former Burnley central defender – raised a Manchester United fan but now playing for Everton – to draw back his right boot and extend it through the ball as powerfully as he could late on Wednesday night.
In the Gladwys Street End where James Tarkowski thumped in his equalising goal for Everton against Liverpool and in the Lower Bullens Stand, over by the corner.
Deep down they will know their experience lacked the bit that matters, the bit that would have kept them awake at night, staring at the ceiling thanking their mum or dad or aunt or uncle or brother or sister or whoever it was who first nudged them in the direction of their football team.
No it’s to celebrate those who were there and who did bear witness to another moment to remind us that football still lives deep within us in such a way that it is impossible to soil.
