THE roof fell in at Goodison Park over the weekend. Happily for Everton, it was a literal, not a metaphorical collapse.
Debris dislodged from the club's triple decker Main Stand on Saturday night saw the closure of Goodison Road overnight.
If it hadn't been for Leon Osman's laser guided left-foot,the Blues might have been coming to terms with the closure of another kind – their extravagantly compiled six-match unbeaten run.
Stoke City are not a team you want to meet at the end of a gruelling run of six games in 17 days, even when you're scoring goals for fun.
But Everton made their job so much harder by committing a cardinal sin against one of the Premier League's most predictable units – they left a centre-back unmarked at a set piece.
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