OUT OF THE DOU-DOU

Ab fab night gives Dyche a boost

IN THE land of the rising son, things are finally looking up for Sean Dyche.

On the day his 20-year-old son Max, a strapping defender at Northampton, celebrated promotion to League One with the Cobblers, Dyche (right) made it a double family celebration.

As Everton bounded out of the bottom three with one of the shock results of the season, this was the night Dyche’s players woke up.

Like Liverpool’s seven-goal annihilation of Manchester United, Brentford winning at Manchester City or Chelsea floundering in the bottom half after spending £600m, nobody saw this rout coming.

One more win may be enough to avoid the most seismic relegation in English football since Manchester United and Tottenham went down in the 1970s.

On this evidence, they should never have been in trouble in the first place.

Two-goal Abdoulaye Doucoure was immense, lone striker Dominic CalvertLewin wasn’t far behind and Dwight McNeil – two goals, two assists – was sensational.