It was a winning start, so important in football, and an image that signposted a new era at Goodison.



After the frustration, sadness and fractured training ground dynamic of Marco Silva’s late reign, it was a symbol of fresh unity.



Davide Ancelotti, Everton’s new assistant coach, hugs his father Carlo in joyous abandon as a beaming Duncan Ferguson leaps in the air behind them. The trio are celebrating Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s late Boxing Day goal, which sealed a tight win over Burnley and ensured three points for Ancelotti and his new assistants from their first game.



Three days earlier, Ancelotti Snr had been unveiled to the media at Goodison, sat beside chief executive Denise Barrett-Baxendale and director of football Marcel Brands. But little had been said about the young man who, later that week, would be donning an Everton beanie and jumping on his father’s back when Calvert-Lewin’s diving header beat the despairing dive of...