On New Year’s Eve, 1983, Everton played Coventry City in a league match at Goodison Park. Just over 13,000 supporters showed up and, after a scoreless draw, that small crowd booed the Everton players off the field. Howard Kendall, Everton’s manager at the time, had already walked out of his house one morning to find ‘Kendall Out’ graffitied on his garage door. Supporters had handed out leaflets calling for his and the chairman’s departure and petitions had been signed. “An angry reaction from the 13 and a half thousand faithful. How sad to see such a great club struggling,” Barry…

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