Everton are boring. Not on the football pitch - and this is not an insult. In fact, it's something David Moyes is taking delight in.
‘You boys are out of questions, there’s nothing left to ask,’ he joked with a small number of reporters this week - and though this affable manager is always up for a natter, there was probably some truth in it. There was not much to grill him about.
That is something to be celebrated. On this day last year, Moyes was signing his contract after Sean Dyche was sacked following a nosedive in results.