The blunt refrain from the supporter sitting just behind the press box at Goodison Park on Sunday was a familiar one — “get up, you bloody idiot” — but the difference on this occasion was the target of the invective.

This was not an irate Everton fan letting off steam at a Tottenham Hotspur player, but one utterly exasperated by the antics of Richarlison, the Everton forward, whose insistence upon falling to the floor in a heap almost every time he was touched became an embarrassment — not to mention counter-productive.

There was a moment in the 60th minute when, with the match goalless, Davinson Sánchez scurried across his penalty area to close down the Brazilian attacker and looked to have impeded Richarlison who, it